Mozart & Schumann

For the Festival’s one-and-only Thursday evening concert this year, two brilliant musicians—violinist John Storgårds and cellist Anssi Karttunen—play stunning solo works written for them by Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho and Danish composer Bent Sørensen, while pianist Juho Pohjonen plays Schumann’s highly Romantic Piano Quartet in E-flat Major (written in 1842, the composer’s much-celebrated “year of chamber music”), and violinist Chad Hoopes leads Festival musicians in one of Mozart’s most remarkable chamber music works: the String Quintet in C Major, K. 515, which includes an additional viola (an instrument Mozart loved to play and to write for). 

SAARIAHO Lullaby for Solo Cello (in memoriam Oliver Knussen) 

SAARIAHO Nocturne for Solo Violin 

MOZART String Quintet in C Major, K. 515 

SAARIAHO Spins and Spells for Solo Cello 

BENT SØRENSEN Serenissima for Solo Violin 

SCHUMANN Piano Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 47 

Juho Pohjonen, piano; William Hagen, Chad Hoopes, John Storgårds, violin; Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, Steven Tenenbom, viola; Clive Greensmith, Anssi Karttunen, Harriet Krijgh, cello 

Approximate length: 2 hours