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Music Mountain 2009 #24

Series: Music Mountain 2009 Chamber Music Concerts
From: Music Mountain
Length: 01:57:00

Highlights from past series, this program was recorded June 25, 2006 and features the Amernet String Quartet plus Assisting Artist Humbert Lucarelli, Oboe Read the full description.

2001_hall_small Amernet String Quartet: Misha Vitenson, Violin; Michael Klotz, Viola; Marcia Littley, Violin; Javier Arias, Cello. With assisting artist Humbert Lucarelli, Oboe.

STRING QUARTET #3 IN F MAJOR Opus 73 by Dmitri Shostakovich
-Allegretto
-Moderato com moto
-Allegro non troppo
-Adagio
-Moderato

QUARTET FOR OBOE AND STRINGS IN F MAJOR, K. 370 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
-Allegro
-Adagio
-Rondeau; Allegro

INTERMISSION

STRING QUARTET IN A MINOR, OPUS 132 by Ludwig van Beethoven
-Assai sostenuto; Allegro
-Allegro ma non tanto
-Heiliger Dankgesang eines Genesenen an die Gottheit, in der lydischen tonart: Molto Adagio:
-Neue Kraft fuhlend: Andante
-Alla marcia, assai vivace
-Allegro appassionato

HISTORIC ENCORE: Jerome Kern melodies played by the Gordon String Quartet

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Piece Description

Amernet String Quartet: Misha Vitenson, Violin; Michael Klotz, Viola; Marcia Littley, Violin; Javier Arias, Cello. With assisting artist Humbert Lucarelli, Oboe.

STRING QUARTET #3 IN F MAJOR Opus 73 by Dmitri Shostakovich
-Allegretto
-Moderato com moto
-Allegro non troppo
-Adagio
-Moderato

QUARTET FOR OBOE AND STRINGS IN F MAJOR, K. 370 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
-Allegro
-Adagio
-Rondeau; Allegro

INTERMISSION

STRING QUARTET IN A MINOR, OPUS 132 by Ludwig van Beethoven
-Assai sostenuto; Allegro
-Allegro ma non tanto
-Heiliger Dankgesang eines Genesenen an die Gottheit, in der lydischen tonart: Molto Adagio:
-Neue Kraft fuhlend: Andante
-Alla marcia, assai vivace
-Allegro appassionato

HISTORIC ENCORE: Jerome Kern melodies played by the Gordon String Quartet

Transcript

PROGRAM NOTES

STRING QUARTET #3 IN F MAJOR, OPUS 73
by Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)

The Third Quartet, written in 1946, mixes the playful and the contemplative. There can be no denying that from the sprightly opening movement to the closing note there is scarcely a bar that could have been written by anyone else. Composed during a particularly dormant period in Shostakovich’s composing life, it is the only work listed for the year 1946 in the catalog of his works. Shostakovich dedicated the Third Quartet to the members of the Beethoven String Quartet, who premiered it in Moscow on December 16, 1946. The Third Quartet is in five movements and is the second longest of the Shostakovich string quartets.

OBOE QUARTET IN F MAJOR, K. 370
by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Mozart spent several months in Munich during the late fall and winter of 1780-1781 while completing his opera Id...
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