TIME: 07:30 pm
Here’s a secret of great artistry: no one does it alone. This season, First Mondays explore connections and friendships between composers and musicians who inspired each other.
Join us as we celebrate 35 years of First Mondays: well-loved classics and new compositions, performed by some of the finest chamber musicians in the world, free and open to all.
Clara
Wieck Schumann was born in 1819, 200 years ago. The love that united her and
Robert had music at its core. While Clara deferred to Robert as composer, she
was one of the most famous pianists of her time. But her “Romances” of 1853, dedicated to the
wonderful violinist Joseph Joachim (born 1832), show her deeply felt gift for
composition. Robert’s part of the program includes his preoccupation with the human
voice as an expression of love. His “chamber music year” (1842) finished with
the enduringly popular piano quintet.
Program:
Clara
Schumann: Three Romances for Violin and Piano, op. 22 (dedicated to Joseph
Joachim)
Donald Weilerstein, violin
Vivian Hornik Weilerstein, piano
Robert
Schumann: Spanische Liebeslieder, op.138
Sarah Yanovitch*, soprano
Jaime Korkos*, mezzo-soprano
Michael Kuh*, tenor
Corey Gaudreau*, baritone
Tanya Blaich, piano
Cameron Stowe, piano
Robert Schumann: Piano
Quintet in E–flat Major, op. 44
Donald
Weilerstein, violin
Ari
Isaacman-Beck*, violin
Kim
Kashkashian, viola
Timotheos
Petrin*, cello
Michael
Bukhman, piano
*denotes NEC alumni