Sat August 3, 2013
Concert Program VI: French Connections
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at Menlo-Atherton Center for the Performing Arts
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Bach is widely regarded as the patriarch of a Germanic tradition, a lineage fulfilled by Haydn, Beethoven, and Brahms. But equally vibrant in Bach’s language are the elegance, color, and romance that characterize the music of France more than a century later.
PROGRAM
Johann Sebastian BACH (1685–1750): French Suite no. 5 for Solo Piano, BWV 816 (1722)
Camille SAINT-SAËNS (1835–1921): Fantaisie in A Major for Violin and Harp, op. 124 (1907)
Claude DEBUSSY (1862–1918): Sonata for Flute, Viola, and Harp (1915)
Marcel TOURNIER (1879–1951): Suite for Flute, Violin, Viola, Cello, and Harp, op. 34 (1929)
César FRANCK (1822–1890): Piano Quintet (1880)
ARTISTS
Tara Helen O’Connor, flute
Bridget Kibbey, harp
Gilles Vonsattel, Wu Han, pianos
Kristin Lee, Arnaud Sussmann, Ian Swensen, violins
Paul Neubauer, Richard O’Neill, violas
Dmitri Atapine, David Finckel, cellos
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PROGRAM
Johann Sebastian BACH (1685–1750): French Suite no. 5 for Solo Piano, BWV 816 (1722)
Camille SAINT-SAËNS (1835–1921): Fantaisie in A Major for Violin and Harp, op. 124 (1907)
Claude DEBUSSY (1862–1918): Sonata for Flute, Viola, and Harp (1915)
Marcel TOURNIER (1879–1951): Suite for Flute, Violin, Viola, Cello, and Harp, op. 34 (1929)
César FRANCK (1822–1890): Piano Quintet (1880)
ARTISTS
Tara Helen O’Connor, flute
Bridget Kibbey, harp
Gilles Vonsattel, Wu Han, pianos
Kristin Lee, Arnaud Sussmann, Ian Swensen, violins
Paul Neubauer, Richard O’Neill, violas
Dmitri Atapine, David Finckel, cellos
Bach is widely regarded as the patriarch of a Germanic tradition, a lineage fulfilled by Haydn, Beethoven, and Brahms. But equally vibrant in Bach’s language are the elegance, color, and romance that characterize the music of France more than a century later.
PROGRAM
Johann Sebastian BACH (1685–1750): French Suite no. 5 for Solo Piano, BWV 816 (1722)
Camille SAINT-SAËNS (1835–1921): Fantaisie in A Major for Violin and Harp, op. 124 (1907)
Claude DEBUSSY (1862–1918): Sonata for Flute, Viola, and Harp (1915)
Marcel TOURNIER (1879–1951): Suite for Flute, Violin, Viola, Cello, and Harp, op. 34 (1929)
César FRANCK (1822–1890): Piano Quintet (1880)
ARTISTS
Tara Helen O’Connor, flute
Bridget Kibbey, harp
Gilles Vonsattel, Wu Han, pianos
Kristin Lee, Arnaud Sussmann, Ian Swensen, violins
Paul Neubauer, Richard O’Neill, violas
Dmitri Atapine, David Finckel, cellos
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PROGRAM
Johann Sebastian BACH (1685–1750): French Suite no. 5 for Solo Piano, BWV 816 (1722)
Camille SAINT-SAËNS (1835–1921): Fantaisie in A Major for Violin and Harp, op. 124 (1907)
Claude DEBUSSY (1862–1918): Sonata for Flute, Viola, and Harp (1915)
Marcel TOURNIER (1879–1951): Suite for Flute, Violin, Viola, Cello, and Harp, op. 34 (1929)
César FRANCK (1822–1890): Piano Quintet (1880)
ARTISTS
Tara Helen O’Connor, flute
Bridget Kibbey, harp
Gilles Vonsattel, Wu Han, pianos
Kristin Lee, Arnaud Sussmann, Ian Swensen, violins
Paul Neubauer, Richard O’Neill, violas
Dmitri Atapine, David Finckel, cellos
show less
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Menlo-Atherton Center for the Performing Arts
555 Middlefield Road, Atherton, CA 94207
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