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Music Mountain #7, recorded 7/19/09

Series: Music Mountain 2009 Chamber Music Concerts
From: Music Mountain
Length: 01:56:03

Concert #7 of the 2009 Music Mountain Chamber Music Festival performed by The Cassatt String Quartet Read the full description.
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2001_hall_small String Quartet In A Flat Major, Opus 105 (1895); Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
-Adagio ma non troppo; Allegro appassionato
-Molto vivace
-Lento e molto cantabile
-Allegro, non tanto

INTERMISSION

Cello Quintet In C Major, Opus 163, D. 956 (1828); Franz Schubert  (1797-1828)
-Allegro ma non troppo
-Adagio
-Scherzo: Presto; Trio: Andante sostenuto
-Allegretto

FIRST HISTORIC ENCORE:
Debussy:  String Quartet in G minor, opus 10, played by the Bergonzi String Quartet

SECOND HISTORIC ENCORE:
Ravel: String Quartet in F played by the Gordon String Quartet (partial)

Music Mountain #7, recorded 7/19/09 | 01:56:03

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Piece Description

String Quartet In A Flat Major, Opus 105 (1895); Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
-Adagio ma non troppo; Allegro appassionato
-Molto vivace
-Lento e molto cantabile
-Allegro, non tanto

INTERMISSION

Cello Quintet In C Major, Opus 163, D. 956 (1828); Franz Schubert  (1797-1828)
-Allegro ma non troppo
-Adagio
-Scherzo: Presto; Trio: Andante sostenuto
-Allegretto

FIRST HISTORIC ENCORE:
Debussy:  String Quartet in G minor, opus 10, played by the Bergonzi String Quartet

SECOND HISTORIC ENCORE:
Ravel: String Quartet in F played by the Gordon String Quartet (partial)

Transcript

PROGRAM NOTES

STRING QUARTET IN A FLAT MAJOR, OPUS 105
By Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)

“Son of the butcher or Tony the Butcher” is how we would know him (or much more likely never know him) if Antonin Dvorak’s father had prevailed in determining his son’s future. Antonin Dvorak was in line to become a butcher, like his father. However, also like his father who played the zither, son-Antonin played the fiddle with his father’s band at weddings and various social events of the day in rural Bohemia, a part of middle Europe we think of as Czechoslovakia. At those gatherings, the young Antonin acquired a strong interest in music, especially the folk music of his people.

Antonin Dvorak went on to study music at the Organ School in Prague, to be influenced by not only the greats of the past, Beethoven and Schubert, but also to be intrigued with the music of Smetana, 20 years his senior. Sm...
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