The Bard takes center stage as Korngold channels Shakespeare’s story of courtship, crossed wires and mistaken identities; Adès creates vivid character sketches of the Court of Naples; and David Matthews gives voice to Antony and Cleopatra. Elgar offers an Edwardian masterpiece of epic scope, embodying the gilded age and filled with unabashed romanticism and the pastoral grace of the English countryside.

Program:

Erich Korngold, Suite from Much Ado About Nothing for violin & piano, Op. 11

Ralph Vaughan Williams, Six Studies in English Folk Song for English horn & piano

David Matthews, Terrible Beauty for soprano, flute, clarinet, harp & string quartet, Op. 104

Thomas Adès, Court Studies from The Tempest for clarinet, violin, cello & piano

Edward Elgar, Piano Quintet in a minor, Op. 84 (1918)

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