Songs Without Words (Minneapolis)

CLARA SCHUMANN:Romances for Violin and Piano
FELIX MENDELSSOHN:Selections from Songs without Words
SERGEI RACHMANINOFF:Cello Sonata, p. 19, first movement
AMY BEACH:Piano Quintet
This event is presented by the Woman's Club of Minneapolis.
5:30-7:30 p.m.Pre-concert bites available at the Woman's Club of Minneapolis dining room. Please call for reservations: (612) 813-5300.
6:30 p.m.Bar service in the Main Lounge begins
7:30 p.m.Concert begins in the Main Lounge

Pianist Audrey Vardanaga joins strings from the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and Minnesota Orchestra bringing music from the Romantic period, including Amy Beach's stunning Piano Quintet.

Program Notes:

“When choosing the pieces for this program, I was thinking about Amy Beach’s deeply romantic voice and how it relates so naturally with the easeful melodies of Felix Mendelssohn’s Songs without Words, Sergei Rachmaninoff’s lush harmonies from his Cello Sonata in G Minor, and Clara Schumann’s whimsical 3 Romances. Mendelssohn and Clara Schumann preceded Amy Beach, paving the way for the tonal worlds of the 20th Century Romantics (like Rachmaninoff and Beach). Sergei Rachmaninoff and Amy Beach were contemporaries, and I find that their music pairs together well. Since they were both pianists, Rachmaninoff and Beach were not only incredibly romantic in their compositional styles, but also both deeply connected to the physicality of the piano in their compositional languages.” —Audrey Vardanaga, Piano/Curator

Artists

Audrey Vardanega
Piano / Curator
Kathryn Bennett
Violin
Eunice Kim
Violin
David Auerbach
Viola
Scott Lykins
Cello
 

All LAMF activities are made possible by the voters of Minnesota through grants from the Five Wings Arts Council and Minnesota State Arts Board thanks to a legislative appropriation from the Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund.

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