Salon Concerts 2022-2023 Season
Cuándo:
April 16, 2023 to April 18, 2023
Dónde:
Address and directions to the concerts will be sent to you upon reservation, Austin, TX
Sobre el evento:
Event Producer:
Salon Concerts
Kathryn Mishell
P.O. Box 163501,Austin, TX 78716
Concert Season
Classical
Salon Concerts announces its 33rd season of wonderful chamber music concerts played by outstanding artists in the private atmosphere of beautiful homes. We invite you to our series of four concerts of the 2022-2023 season. Each concert is followed by delicious food and wine, and the opportunity to mingle with the artists and your fellow music lovers.
Sunday January 22, 2023 4:30 pm
Monday January 23, 2023 7:00 pm
Joseph Smith, Vln; Elizabeth Girko, Vln; Bruce Williams, Vla; Douglas Harvey, Vc; Joel Braun, Bass; Marianne Gedigian, Flute; Stephen Girko, Clarinet; Ian Davidson, Oboe; Kristin W. Jensen, Bassoon; Tom Hale, Horn.
PROGRAM:
Quintet for Oboe, Clarinet, Violin, Viola & Double Bass in G Minor, Op. 39
Sergei Prokofiev
Serenade No. 1 in D Major, Op. 11 (Reconstruction by Chris Nex)
Johannes Brahms
Prokofiev’s Quintet Op.39, composed in 1924 captivates us with clear, happy melodies, somber reflections, ironic twists, sweet song-like expressions, and exciting rhythmic adventures. Each instrument gets to have a wonderful time expressing its own lines well as integrating into the whole. The resulting work shines with clarity. The music takes us on a journey we can’t possibly predict, but as each new vista is revealed, we are fascinated by its ever-changing landscape.
Brahms first worked out his Serenade Op.11 as a sketch intended for an octet. But soon he turned it into a serenade scored for a full Beethovenian orchestra—the version of the piece well-known and loved by today’s audiences. In this excellent reconstruction of the piece for ten players, we are able to fully experience the beauty of the piece in a version close to that of Brahms’s initial conception. And we’ll listen together in the intimate setting befitting a chamber ensemble.
Sunday March 5, 2023 4:30 pm
Monday March 6, 2023 7:00 pm
Stephanie Sant’Ambrogio, Violin
Douglas Harvey, Cello
Colette Valentine, Piano
Kathryn Mishell, Piano
PROGRAM:
Sonata in D Minor for Cello & Piano L.135……………………….……Claude Debussy
Duo for Violin and Piano: Swan Song………………………….………..Kathryn Mishell
Piano Trio in G Major, K.564.……..…………………………Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sonata for Violin & Piano Op.7…………………………………..……….…..Ethyl Smyth
Debussy’s Sonata for Cello and Piano grabs us from the first moment with its intimate, tuneful melody. Within the first three minutes, as we follow its growing excitement, we will not be able to let it go. The playful Sérénade of the second movement will swing us from mood to mood. The dancing joy in its final movement will leave us smiling.
Duo for Violin and Piano: Swan Song: When Stephanie Sant’Ambrogio honored me by asking if I would write a piece for her to mark her retirement as Founder and Artistic Director of the Cactus Pear Music Festival, I was delighted. Her 26 years of giving imagination and enthusiasm, service and inspiration to performers and audiences is something to celebrate!
My approach to the project was to give Stephanie music that would give her an opportunity to sing with her violin—sing with her heart, reaching up high where she loves to be—and also plunging to the lower regions of her instrument. The instrument she holds in her glorious hands has taken Stephanie and her audiences to expanses of experience no words can express. She can dance as well as sing. She can laugh and she can wail, she can swim and she can fly. I hoped to give her a piece that could present opportunities to twirl and leap with abandon, as well as to lie down and be still, very still, to simply reflect and to feel.
Mozart’s last piano trio, K. 564 in G major, shares the year of 1788 with some of his greatest works including the last three symphonies and the sublime string trio. This final trio is an exquisitely wrought classical masterpiece of great warmth, color, ingenuity, and, above all, a balanced, nuanced ensemble. It is subtle, yet arguably perfect—like Mozart.
Ethel Smyth (1858-1944) was a groundbreaking English composer, famous for conducting her opera Der Wald at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the first opera by a woman to be performed there. She wrote three other operas, and several orchestral works including a Mass, all of which which were highly acclaimed. Her early style will remind you of Mendelssohn or Brahms. Her middle works reflect the dynamism and turbulence of Beethoven and Wagner. You will hear those influences in this Sonata in A Minor. It is a major work of great originality, expressiveness and excitement.
Sunday April 16, 2023 4:30pm
Monday April 17, 2023 7:00 pm
Free concert at Dell Seton Medical Center Hospital | Tuesday April 18 | 12PM
Annie Chalex Boyle, Violin
David Bernat, Violin
Nina Bernat, Bass
Rick Rowley, Piano
Kathryn Mishell, Piano
PROGRAM:
Gran Duo Concertante for Violin, Bass and Piano…………….…...Giovanni Bottesini
Spanish Dance …………………………………………………………. Myroslav Skoryk
Carpathian Rhapsody……………………………………….…….……..Myroslav Skoryk
Duo for Violin and Bass………………………...………….……….Krzysztof Penderecki
Melody from the High Pass …………………………….……….………Myroslav Skoryk
Allegro……………………………………………………..……Yuly Sergueievitch Meytus
Mosaic Mirage………………………………………..……….……..….….Kathryn Mishell
Sonata for Violin and Piano…………………………………….……..…..…. Zara Levina
April’s concert will focus on Ukranian chamber music for violin and piano. In addition, we will hear the Bottesini’s Gran Duo Concertante for Violin, Bass and Piano, featuring the fabulous young violin/string bass brother-sister duo Nina and Mark Bernat, who will take a few days off from their studies at Juilliard to come and play for us.
The short Ukrainian pieces we will play on this program are tuneful, intimate, imaginative expressions of the music nourished by the earth and the spirit of Ukraine.
The Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki (1933-2020) takes us from vitality and excitement to heart-pulling expressiveness and back in this wonderful short Duo for Violin and Bass, composed in 2010.
Snuggled between all this marvelous music, Kathryn Mishell’s short Mosaic Mirage for solo piano will have its premier performance on this program.
Zara Levina’s passionate, tuneful Sonata for Violin and Piano is not widely known in America, but the recording of it played by David Oistrach attests to the respect it garnered in Russia and the Ukraine. Although Levina was educated in Russia, she was born in Crimea, and spend her youth there.