20-concert series: Mondays at 2pm and 7:30pm 
All performances, except where noted, are held at
 Good Shepherd Presbyterian Church
152 West 66th Street, New York, NY 10023
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	Stefan Milenkovich violin Paul Neubauer viola Lisa Shihoten violin	Maurycy Banaszek viola David Requiro cello Vadim Lando clarinet

BEETHOVEN  Duo in E^b Major for viola and cello mit zwei obbligaten Augengläsern “with two obligato eyeglasses” WoO 32 • 1796
  • in a letter to his longtime friend, the amateur cellist Baron Nikolaus Zmeskall von Domanovecz, arranging a reading of the new piece, Beethoven alluded to their short-sightedness, “I am obliged to you for the weakness of your eyes,” hence its title ~ his jocular mood extends to the Duo’s spirited playfulness

Johann Georg DISTLER [1760-1799]  Trio Concertant in E^b Major Op. 7 No. 2
  • delightful music by Haydn’s favorite Austrian pupil ~ for clarinet, violin and viola

MOZART  Horn Quintet K. 407 • 1782
  • brilliant writing for the extraordinary virtuoso hornist and cheesemonger Joseph Leutgeb, his lifelong friend and butt of his irreverent jokes

MENDELSSOHN  String Quintet No. 1 in A Major Op. 18 • 1826
  • a remarkable work written at age 17, the Quintet is elegantly classical and one of his most personal expressions ~ in 1832 Mendelssohn replaced the original Minuet with an Intermezzo as a memorial to Eduard Rietz, his violin teacher and boyhood friend

	Misha Vitenson violin Cynthia Phelps viola Lisa Shihoten violin Ani Aznavoorian cello	Inga Kapouler piano Barry Crawford flute Vadim Lando clarinet

Carl Maria von WEBER  Trio in G Minor Op. 63 • 1819
  • Louis Spohr was the first to hear this neat, early Romantic Trio for flute, cello and piano, played at his home, after which Weber recorded in his diary, “it went very well, and came off just as I wanted” ~ the critic Harold Schonberg called Weber “an authentic genius whose greatest tragedy was that he was born about thirty years ahead of his time”

SCHUMANN  Märchenerzählungen “Fairy Tales” Op. 132 • 1853
  • 4 lovely miniatures for clarinet, viola and piano

MAHLER  Piano Quartet in A Minor • 1876
  • quintessential melancholia ~ composed at the young age of 15 or 16 while a student at the Vienna Conservatory

Hans ROTT [1858-1884]  String Quartet in C Minor
  • a beautiful quartet by the Austrian composer who roomed with Mahler briefly, studied under Bruckner, was debilitated by mental illness, and died at age 25 of tuberculosis ~ Mahler exalted Rott, calling him “a musician of genius...who died unrecognized and in want on the very threshold of his career.... What music has lost in him cannot be estimated. Such is the height to which his genius soars....”

	Roman Rabinovich piano Lidia Kaminska bandoneon Oren Fader electric guitar Kurt Muroki double bass Barry Crawford flute	Philippe Quint violin Chun-Wen Huang violin Max Mandel viola Denise Djokic cello

Joaquín TURINA  La Oración del Torero “The Bullfighter’s Prayer” • 1925
  • influenced by his French sojourn, Turina’s dramatic, impressionistic score is thoroughly Andalusian in spirit ~ a nervous prayer precedes the bullfight, with echoes of a pasodoble (march-like music often played in the ring) and calm, sweet strains of contemplation

Manuel PONCE  Petite suite dans le style ancien
  • an affectionate homage to the Baroque

Albert GINASTERA  Impresiones de la Puna • 1934
  • evokes the rocky wasteland of Puna in heart of the Incas up in the Andes mountains and its Amerindian music ~ for flute and string quartet

Heitor VILLA-LOBOS  Piano Trio No. 1 in D Minor • 1911
  • even though he had absorbed the music of Brazil and the Caribbean in his late teens and early twenties, these indigenous elements are not evident in his early works, the Piano Trio No. 1 being among the most notable

Astor PIAZZOLLA
  Concierto para quinteto
  Milonga del Angel
  Fugata
  Chin Chin ~ a showstopper
  • 4 groovy numbers by the towering Argentinian who transformed folksy tunes into high art, pushing the limits of traditional tango with an infusion of jazz and classical forms ~ for bandoneon, piano, electric guitar, violin and double bass

	Ilya Itin piano Vadim Lando clarinet Gina Cuffari bassoon	Dmitri Berlinsky violin Erin Keefe violin Maurycy Banaszek viola Inbal Segev cello

Alexander GLAZUNOV  5 Novelettes Op. 15 • 1886
  • alluring genre pieces inspired by folk music, with traces of Spanish, Oriental and Hungarian dance rhythms ~ written at age 16 and dedicated to Anatoly Liadov

Mikhail GLINKA  Trio pathétique • 1927-1928
  • dark, haunting melodies from the “Father of Russian Music” ~ after its première in Milan with Glinka at the piano, clarinetist Tassistro and bassoonist Antonio Cantú, Cantú remarked, “Why that is a thing of desperation!” The original score is prefaced by a quote in French, reflecting on Glinka's string of wilted love affairs: “I have known love only through the unhappiness it causes.”

SHOSTAKOVICH  Piano Quintet in G Minor Op. 57 • 1940
  • Glazunov's pupil's magnificent quintet, considered by some to be his greatest work

	Misha Keylin violin Pei-Yao Wang piano Mark Kosower cello Bronwyn Banerdt cello	Bracha Malkin violin Brian Chen viola Mark Holloway viola

Music by composers whose works Jens Nygaard performed ~ on November 1 and 2, 1999 he, in fact, paired the Liszt Angelus (for string orchestra) with the Raff “Winter” Symphony

LISZT  Angelus! Prière aux ange gardiens “Prayer to the Guardian Angels” • 1880
  • inspired by the careless ringing of the Angelus bells which he heard in his rooms at the Villa d'Este in Rome, Liszt echoed this waywardness with an evocative and Romantic meditation on the call to devotional prayer for the Annunciation, reflective of the deeply religious, mystical side of his nature ~ for string quartet

Ferruccio BUSONI  Concerto in D Minor Op. 17 • 1878
  • the precocious genius at age 12 composes an amazing and unusual work recalling Mozart, Beethoven, early Chopin, and Mendelssohn in the solo passages ~ for piano and string quartet

SCHUMANN  Fantasiestücke Op. 88 • 1843
  • his earliest piano trio, revealing an intimate, lyrical Schumann, who noted “its much more delicate...nature” in a letter to his lifelong friend Johannes Verhulst, the Dutch composer and conductor ~ penned just after his happy marriage to Clara

Joachim RAFF  String Sextet in G Minor Op. 178 • 1872
  • lush Romanticism from the Swiss-born German, one of the greatest forgotten composers ~ Raff was pleased with the première on December 13 at a private concert in the Court Chapel of Sondershausen Castle, telling his wife Doris Genast, “We did the Sextet yesterday, after dinner. It proves to be a piece in which wit finally outstrips humor.”

	Maxim Lando piano Winnie Lai oboe Vadim Lando clarinet Karl Kramer horn Audrey Flores horn	Xiao-Dong Wang violin Lisa Shihoten violin Jennifer Stumm viola Inbal Segev cello Gina Cuffari bassoon

SCHUBERT  5 Minuets and 6 Trios for string quartet D. 89 • 1813
  •  written at age 16, possibly for the family quartet to play, or for friends at the Konvikt—Vienna's Imperial College (sort of an elite boarding school)—where he studied theory with Salieri

HAYDN  Cassation in F Major Hob. II:F2 • date of composition unknown
  •  in 5 winning movements for oboe, 2 horns, bassoon, violin, viola and cello

Josef SUK  Elegy Op. 23 • 1902
  •  a poignant lament by Dvorák's pupil and son-in-law for the poet, writer and dramatist Julius Zeyer ~ for piano trio

BRAHMS  Clarinet Quintet • 1891
  •  his crowning achievement in chamber music

	Adam Neiman piano Barry Crawford flute Vadim Lando clarinet Gina Cuffari bassoon	Anton Barakhovsky violin Cynthia Phelps viola Lisa Shihoten violin Ani Aznavoorian cello Kurt Muroki double bass

BACH  Trio Sonata No. 3 in D Minor BWV 527 • 1730
  • originally for organ, the admirable arrangement for flute, clarinet and bassoon is by Mordechai Rechtman, the renowned Israeli bassoonist

August KLUGHARDT  String Quintet in G Minor Op. 62 • circa 1890
  • the German composer's exceptional quintet for 2 violins, viola, cello and double bass, influenced by Liszt, Wagner, Schumann and Brahms

Richard STRAUSS  Piano Quartet in C Minor Op. 13 • 1884
  • a glorious homage to Brahms, bursting with exuberance and originality by the 19-year-old ~ first performed in Weimar on Dec 8, 1885 with Strauss at the piano

	William Wolfram piano Vadim Gluzman violin Lisa Shihoten violin Inbal Segev cello	Barry Crawford flute Winnie Lai oboe Vadim Lando clarinet Karl Kramer horn Gina Cuffari bassoon

MOZART  Wind Quintet in C Minor
  • Mordechai Rechtman made this excellent arrangement for winds after Mozart's Serenade No. 12 K. 388 and Quintet K. 406

BRAHMS  Hymne zur Verherrlichung des groben Joachim “Hymn in Honor of the Great Joachim” • 1853
  • a silly little waltz whipped up as a practical joke for the birthday of his new best friend, the great violinist Joseph Joachim, whom he had just met in Göttingen ~ scored for instruments their friends had at hand, 2 violins and a double bass (or cello)

Moritz MOSZKOWSKI  Suite in G Minor Op. 71 • 1903
  • for many years the dazzling piece for 2 violins and cello was one of the German composer's best known works before its disappearance from the concert stage

BRAHMS  Piano Trio [No. 4] in A Major • posthumous
  • discovered in 1924, scholarly opinion remains divided on the gobsmacking Trio's authenticity

	Stephen Beus piano Stefan Jackiw violin Note: Alexander Velinzon will replace Stefan Jackiw, who will be performing in a multi-city tour in Asia.		Lisa Shihoten violin Max Mandel viola Ani Aznavoorian cello Vadim Lando clarinet Karl Kramer horn

TCHAIKOVSKY  String Quartet in B^b Major • 1865
  • a one-movement jewel written while a student at the St. Petersburg Conservatory ~ based on the theme of a Ukrainian song heard from gardeners at Kamenka during the summer of that year, Tchaikovsky later used the main theme of the quartet in his Scherzo á la russe for piano

Anton ARENSKY  Piano Trio in D Minor Op. 32 • 1894
  • soaring melodies infused with Russian romanticism ripple through the splendid Trio by Tchaikovsky's pupil and Scriabin's teacher

Ernő DOHNÁNYI  Sextet in C Major • 1935
  • the Czech composer's virtuosic and wildly dramatic sextet with jazzy rhythms for the unusual combination of piano, clarinet, horn, violin, viola and cello ~ “Something of a rarity on chamber programs...it is full of lush and surging late-Romantic textures of an almost orchestral density” Jeremy Eichler, music critic

	Sergey Ostrovsky violin Cynthia Phelps viola Robyn Bollinger violin Joshua Roman cello	Frank Morelli bassoon Einav Yarden piano Vadim Lando clarinet Alana Vegter horn

MOZART  Sonata in B^b Major for bassoon and cello K. 292 • 1775
  • composed during his visit to Munich, possibly for Baron Thaddäus von Dürnitz, an amateur bassoonist

Felice GIARDINI  Duet No. 2 for viola & bassoon
  • by one of the great violin virtuosos of the 18^th century

Carl Maria von WEBER  Andante and Rondo Ungarese Op. 35 • 1813
  • a long flurry of triplets for the bassoon at the end will leave you more breathless than the great Frank Morelli ~ arranged by Mordechai Rechtman for bassoon and string trio

Leos JANÁCEK  Concertino • 1925
  • the important and original Czech composer concocts a wonderfully thorny, bracing septet that stretches the boundaries of the instruments ~ a whimsical evocation of nature, with each of the four movements depicting scenes involving woodland creatures ~ for piano, 2 violins, viola, clarinet, horn and bassoon

DVORÁK  String Quartet No. 12 in F Major “American” • 1893
  • a much beloved work, composed during his stay in the New World, with strains of a Negro spiritual and an American bird

	Adam Neiman piano Xiao-Dong Wang violin Robert Meyer viola David Requiro cello	Barry Crawford flute Vadim Lando clarinet Gina Cuffari soprano & bassoon

Francis POULENC  Sonata for clarinet and bassoon • 1922
  • 2 winds sport an entertaining bitonal conversation

Léo DELIBES  Le Rossignol “The Nightingale”
  • our soprano, piano and flute obligato will enthrall you with this charming song

Théodore DUBOIS  Quintet in F Major • published circa 1905
  • a marvelous example of late French Romanticism for the unusual combination of piano, clarinet, violin, viola and cello

Philippe GAUBERT  Trois aquarelles • 1915
  Par un clair matin “On a Clear Morning”
  Soir d'automne “Autumn Evening”
  Sérénade
  • composed in the trenches during World War I, “Three Watercolors” are depicted in sound by tonal colors of the flute, cello and piano ~ the melodies, rhythms and textures are “attractively impressionistic, graceful, tuneful, and not a note too long” David Hurwitz

RAVEL  Piano Trio in A Minor • 1914
  • music critic Harold Schonberg commented that Ravel’s exuberant showpiece “was...one of his most polished and elegant scores (the opening theme of the first movement may well be his greatest lyric inspiration)”

	Alessio Bax piano Lucille Chung piano Barry Crawford flute	Stefan Milenkovich violin Wendy Warner cello Vadim Lando clarinet

BEETHOVEN  Duetto No. 3 in B^b Major WoO 27 • 1810-1815
  • the engaging duo for violin and cello, originally for clarinet and bassoon, is possibly spurious, there being no record of any comment by Beethoven on the set of 3 duets

Carl Philipp Emanuel BACH  Trio No. 2 in A Minor
  • by the second son of Bach and godson of Telemann ~ arranged by Giuseppe Piccioli for flute, clarinet and piano

SCHUBERT  Fantasia in F Minor for piano 4-hands D. 940 • 1828
  • one of the most ravishing pieces in the piano literature, the passionate wonder was dedicated to Karoline Esterházy, the object of his unrequited love

MENDELSSOHN  Piano Trio No. 2 in C Minor Op. 66 • 1845
  • dedicated to the violinist and composer, Louis Spohr, who played the sparkling Trio with Mendelssohn at least once

	Roman Rabinovich piano Misha Keylin violin Lisa Shihoten violin Mark Holloway viola Ani Aznavoorian cello	Barry Crawford flute Yousun Chung oboe Vadim Lando clarinet Karl Kramer horn Gina Cuffari bassoon

HAYDN  Piano Trio in B^b Major Hob. XV:38 • circa 1760
  • one of his earliest piano trios, written some months before he quit working for Count Morzin in Vienna and moved to Eisenstadt to become the Esterházy Kapellmeister

Peter RASMUSSEN  Wind Quintet in F Major • 1896
  • awash with wit and beautiful melodies in the spirit of Mozart ~ by the first Dane to write a wind quintet

Bedrich SMETANA  String Quartet No. 2 in D Minor JB 1:124 • 1882
  • completed before his mental breakdown, Smetana noted that his last important work “introduces the swirl of music of a person who has lost his hearing” ~ written excruciatingly, a few measures at a time, because of a constant feeling of lethargy and sense of being dazed ~ Arnold Schoenberg is reported to have said that it “opened the world to him”

DVORÁK  Piano Trio No. 4 in E Minor “Dumky” Op. 90 • 1890
  • Slavic melancholy and a contradictory delirious joy of life permeate this audience favorite

	Seymour Lipkin piano David Requiro cello Joseph Bongiorno double bass Vadim Lando clarinet	Stefan Milenkovich violin Lisa Shihoten violin Max Mandel viola Robert Meyer viola

Johann Nepomuk HUMMEL  Clarinet Quartet in E^b Major • 1808
  • pupil of Mozart and successor to Haydn at Esterházy, the Hungarian composer's Quartet is a standout in the clarinet repertoire ~ appealing through its varied emotions, and an uncommon La Seccatura (“nuisance”) movement that has different and changing time signatures for each of the instruments ~ Hummel was also Beethoven's close friend and a pallbearer at his funeral; both were the most famous virtuoso pianists in their day

BEETHOVEN  String Quintet in E^b Major Op. 4 • 1797
  • a radical transformation and augmentation of his Wind Octet into a work that is “wholly new”

BACH  Piano Concerto No. 4 in A Major BWV 1055 • 1738
BACH  Piano Concerto No. 5 in F Minor BWV 1056 • 1738
  • among the first concertos for keyboard instrument ever written

	Mikhail Kopelman violin Elizaveta Kopelman piano

Aram KHACHATURIAN  Trio for clarinet, violin and piano • 1932
  • composed during his school days at the Moscow Conservatory, the exotic, rhapsodic, hypnotic piece springs from Armenian folk music

SHOSTAKOVICH  Piano Trio No. 1 in C Minor Op. 8 • 1923
  • this hidden gem in one movement traverses a range of emotions that include gloom, gaiety, tenderness, fury and passion ~ accomplished at age 17 while at the Petrograd Conservatoire and dedicated to a sweetheart, Tatyana Glivenko

PROKOFIEV  Overture on Hebrew Themes • 1919
  • made in the U.S.A. out of the spirit of the klezmorim for the Jewish ensemble Zimro and premiered in New York City on January 26, 1920 ~ for clarinet, piano and string quartet

TCHAIKOVSKY  Souvenir de Florence Op. 70 • 1887-1892
  • it all began in Florence, a city he loved and visited several times, and where he made his first sketches ~ completed in Russia in 1890 and revised in 1892, the virtuosic tour de force is a soundscape of emotional intensity

	Dmitri Berlinsky violin

Hugo WOLF  Italian Serenade • 1887
  • a sunny and lyrical string quartet, despite the Austrian composer's life of pain and suffering

BRUCKNER  String Quartet in C Minor WAB 111 • 1862
  • reveals his love of Bach and Schubert while sowing the seeds for his own later symphonic style

SCHUBERT  Octet in F Major D. 803 • 1824
  • of heavenly length at under an hour, it's a marathon for the clarinet, horn, bassoon, string quartet and double bass

	Adam Neiman piano William Wolfram piano

MOZART  Sonata in D Major K. 448 • 1781
  • his only work for 2 pianos, the Sonata was written in the galant manner for a performance he would give with his talented Viennese pupil, Josephine von Aurnhammer, at her family’s home ~ In Alfred Einstein’s view, “The art with which the two parts are made completely equal, the play of the dialogue, the delicacy and refinement of the figuration, the feeling for sonority in the combination and exploitation of the registers of the two instruments—all these things exhibit such mastery that this apparently superficial and entertaining work is at the same time one of the most profound and most mature of all Mozart’s compositions.”

Jacques OFFENBACH  Duo for 2 cellos Op. 54 • 1847
  • the sixth in a set of progressively challenging duets subtitled “très difficile” by the “Mozart of the Champs-Elysées” and “Paganini of the Cello”

SCHUMANN  Andante and Variations Op. 46 • 1843
  • a unique and beautiful piece scored for 2 pianos, 2 cellos and horn ~ Schumann later explained, “The work is very elegiac. I believe I was somewhat melancholy while composing it.” He had perhaps reflected on his loneliness at the time, having written it when Clara was away visiting her father, a man who disapproved of his daughter’s marriage to Robert.

BRAHMS  Variations on a Theme of Haydn Op. 56b • 1873
  • one of his most ingenious compositions, best known in its orchestral form (his first symphonic masterpiece), performed by Jens Nygaard and the Jupiter Symphony in 1990 ~ When Brahms and his closest friend Clara played it at a private gathering, she declared in her diary, “Today I tried the new variations for two pianos with Johannes...they are quite wonderful.”

	Alon Goldstein piano Ilya Kaler violin

Leopold KOZELUCH  Serenata in E^b Major Op. 11 No. 2 • 1787
  • a Haydnesque serenade for flute, horn, violin, viola and cello ~ the April 5, 1786 issue of Pfeffer und Salz reported, “It is no secret that Herr Leopold Kozeluch competes with Mozart…. His compositions bespeak an excellent mind, and no other fault is to be found with them than they are too difficult….” ~ the Bohemian composer’s pupils included such luminaries as Princess Elisabeth of Wurttemberg (later wife of Emperor Franz II) and the Emperor’s daughter Marie-Louise, who became Napoleon’s second wife

Franz Xaver RICHTER  String Quartet in G Major Op. 5 No. 1 • circa 1756
  • the Moravian composer’s study of Gradus ad Parnassum, the counterpoint textbook by his teacher Johann Fux, is apparent in the beautiful quartet’s contrapuntal finale ~ although highly esteemed in his day (Mozart had much respect for his work), Richter is today one of the most neglected of the classical composers

DVORÁK  Sonatina for violin and piano • 1893
  • created during his stay in New York City, from Native American melodies and Negro spirituals ~ arranged for clarinet and string quartet by Jack Brymer, the British clarinettist

SCHUMANN  Piano Trio No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 63 • 1847
  • while the Trio belongs to “a time of gloomy moods” (Schumann’s own words), with a slow movement bearing the weight of one of his great tragic expressions, there is ample vitality and jubilance as well, conveyed through original ideas that were praised by Clara in a letter: “It sounds as if composed by one from whom there is still much to expect, it is so strong and full of youthful energy and at the same time worked out so masterfully. The first movement is to my mind one of the loveliest that I know.”

	Michael Brown piano Roman Rabinovich piano

PROKOFIEV  Cinderella Suite • 1944
  • pianist-conductor Mikhail Pletnev made a transcription from the ballet music in 2004 for his friend Martha Argerich ~ the result is a rich and colorful, witty, theatrical reduction that captures the moods and imagery of the narrative

RAVEL  La Valse • 1920
  • conceived in 1906 as a tribute to Johann Strauss and the Viennese waltz, the intervention of the Great War and its ensuing death and destruction of Europe turned the French composer’s work into both a glorification and deconstruction of the waltz ~ commissioned by Sergei Diaghilev, who rejected La Valse, stating, “this is not a ballet; it is a portrait of a ballet, it is a painting of a ballet,” and the two men never collaborated again

STRAVINSKY  Sonata • 1944
  • pianist Richard Johnson and the renowned pedagogue Nadia Boulanger premiered the contrapuntal Sonata, which began life as a solo work, but it soon became clear that “four hands were required to voice the four lines clearly”

RACHMANINOFF  Suite No. 2 Op. 17 • 1901
  • out of the darkness of a four-year depression (caused by the rejection of his first symphony) emerged a triumphant march, swirling Waltz, moving Romance and a sizzling Tarantella

	Alessio Bax piano Dmitri Berlinsky violin Cynthia Phelps viola

SCHUBERT  String Trio in B^b Major D.471 • 1816
  • a miniature gem in the spirit of Mozart

Ludwig THUILLE  Piano Sextet Op. 6 • 1886-1888
  • anchored in the classicism of his teacher Josef Rheinberger, the joyful Brahmsian Sextet got the approval of Richard Strauss, his lifelong friend ~ the Austrian composer of Savoyard ancestry died of a heart attack in 1907 at age 45

BRAHMS  Piano Quintet in F Minor Op. 34 • 1864
  • “The Quintet is beautiful beyond words...a masterpiece of chamber music,” wrote Hermann Levi, the German conductor, who was an admirer and friend of Brahms