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Music Mountain 2009 #18

Series: Music Mountain 2009 Chamber Music Concerts
From: Music Mountain
Length: 01:57:01

Highlights from past series, this program was recorded August 3, 2008 and features the St. Petersburg String Quartet plus bass-baritone Jan Opalach and pianist Ted Taylor. Read the full description.

2001_hall_small Alla Aranovskaya, Violin; Boris Vayner,Viola; Alla Krolevich,Violin; And Leonid Shukaev, Cello.  Assisting Artists: Jan Opalach, Bass-Baritone And Ted Taylor, Piano

Program of music by Franz Schubert
 
Lieder:
   Die Gotter Griechenlands, D. 677 (1819)
   Gretchen Am Spinrade, Opus 2, D. 118 (1814)

String Quartet In A Minor, Opus 20, D. 804 Rosamunde (1824)
-Allegro Ma Non Troppo
-Andante
-Menuetto: Allegretto
-Allegro Moderato

String Quartet In D Minor, D. 810, Death And The Maiden (1824)
-Allegro
-Andante Con Moto
-Scherzo: Allegro Molto
-Presto
 
HIISTORIC ENCORE
Dvorak: String Quartet #12 in F minor, opus 96 played by the St. Petersburg String Quartet (partial)

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The sixteenth concert of the 2009 Music Mountain Chamber Music Festival played by The Shanghai String Quartet: Weigang Li, Violin; Honggang Li, Viola; Yi-Wen Jiang, Violin; ...

Piece Description

Alla Aranovskaya, Violin; Boris Vayner,Viola; Alla Krolevich,Violin; And Leonid Shukaev, Cello.  Assisting Artists: Jan Opalach, Bass-Baritone And Ted Taylor, Piano

Program of music by Franz Schubert
 
Lieder:
   Die Gotter Griechenlands, D. 677 (1819)
   Gretchen Am Spinrade, Opus 2, D. 118 (1814)

String Quartet In A Minor, Opus 20, D. 804 Rosamunde (1824)
-Allegro Ma Non Troppo
-Andante
-Menuetto: Allegretto
-Allegro Moderato

String Quartet In D Minor, D. 810, Death And The Maiden (1824)
-Allegro
-Andante Con Moto
-Scherzo: Allegro Molto
-Presto
 
HIISTORIC ENCORE
Dvorak: String Quartet #12 in F minor, opus 96 played by the St. Petersburg String Quartet (partial)

Transcript

PROGRAM NOTES

This season’s theme of Borrowed Melodies is unusually appropriate for a concert with the music of Schubert. There are many examples of his taking a song or a melody and incorporating it in another work.

Die Forelle, (The Trout) is certainly the example that first comes to mind. Today, however, we are bringing you two more examples from Schubert’s compositions. One is the Rosamunda Quartet, using some of the thematic material from Schubert’s failed opera, Rosamunde and the other is his extraordinary song Der Tod un das Madchen which is used in the string quartet Death and the Maiden.

Die Gotter Griechenlands, D. 677

Schubert was 14 when he discovered Schiller’s poems and immediately began setting them to music, the words offering the dramatic texts that stirred an emotional response in the young Schubert. Schiller was the poet to whom Schubert frequently turned through...
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