Week One
FREE OUTDOOR CONCERT – CHAMBER CORNUCOPIA
Wednesday, July 28, 6:30 – 7:30 pm
Bridgehampton Historical Society
The season opens with the sensuous sounds of French Impressionism: from Maurice Ravel, a gentle infusion of harp with a mixed ensemble of strings and winds; from Debussy, vocal and piano pieces as re-imagined for chamber players by friend-of-the-festival Kenji Bunch. Add to that the Palladian poise of a harp concerto by Handel and the mixture of lyricism and galloping virtuosity of Weber’s beloved Clarinet Quintet, and we’re off and running with an assortment of chamber music for every taste. In case of rain, the concert will take place at the Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church.
Program
RAVEL
Introduction and Allegro
HANDEL
Harp Concerto in B-flat Major, HWV 294
DEBUSSY
En Bateau, Beau Soir, Arabesque
WEBER
Clarinet Quintet in B-flat Major, Op. 34
Artists
Marya Martin, Alexander Fiterstein, Karen Gomyo, Jesse Mills,
Choong-Jin Chang, Christian Poltéra, Emmanuel Ceysson
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Week One
BENEFIT CONCERT- BAROQUE BONANZA
Saturday, July 31, 6:30 pm
Atlantic Golf Club
Please help support BCMF by joining us for our annual Benefit – a wonderful evening of great music with fine wine and food at the elegant Atlantic Golf Club. You can download our Benefit Invitation and Reply Card for information or call Derek Delaney at 212-741-9073. Your support enables us to bring these wonderful musicians to the East End every summer. We hope you can join us!
“Sheep May Safely Graze” at the Atlantic Golf Club—perhaps helping keep the fairways closely trimmed? This beloved melody started out in a Bach cantata, and here it joins other charmed cantata excerpts plus the composer’s Fifth Brandenburg Concerto, the first concerto ever to spotlight a keyboard instrument as featured soloist. Also on the program is a late-Renaissance English song by John Dowland and a scintillated work by Bach’s contemporary Antonio Vivaldi. Vivaldi’s A-minor Concerto for Two Violins is a keystone in the collection he titled L’estro armonico, “The Breath of Harmonic Inspiration”—an apt name for music as inspired as this.
Program
J.S. BACH
Brandenburg No. 5 in D Major, BWV 1050
J.S. BACH
Schafe können sicher weiden from Cantata No. 208
J.S. BACH
Jesus bleibet meine Freude from Cantata No. 147
DOWLAND
Come again, sweet love doth now invite
VIVALDI
Concerto in A Minor for Two Violins, RV 522
Artists
Marya Martin, Karen Gomyo, Ani Kavafian, Jessica Lee, Jesse Mills, Choong-Jin Chang,
Christian Poltéra, Jeffrey Beecher, Paolo Bordignon, Randall Scarlata
Week One
MUSIC RICHLY RINGING
Sunday, August 1, 6:30 pm
Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church
“When our own Bach’s music richly rings, he puts great Orpheus himself to shame,” proclaimed a Dresden newspaper in 1731. Here we sample the variety of Bach’s melodious gifts in works instrumental and vocal, secular and sacred. Two of his most admired concertos are played by an ensemble proportioned similarly to those he directed himself, providing a glimpse of just what his contemporaries found so ravishing—and what continues to enchant listeners nearly three centuries later.
Program
J.S. BACH:
Triple Concerto in A Minor, for Flute, Violin and Harpsichord, BWV 1044
Doch weichet, ihr tollen from Cantata No. 8
Concerto in D Minor for Two Violins, BWV 1043
Ja, ja, ich halte Jesum feste from Cantata No. 157
Schafe können sicher weiden from Cantata No. 208
Brandenburg No. 5 in D Major, BWV 1050
Artists
Marya Martin, Karen Gomyo, Ani Kavafian, Jessica Lee, Jesse Mills, Choong-Jin Chang,
Christian Poltéra, Jeffrey Beecher, Paolo Bordignon, Randall Scarlata
Week Two
MUSICAL MÉLANGE
Wednesday, August 4, 7:30 pm
Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church
Op. 1, No. 1—this lowest possible opus number signals the beginning of Beethoven’s career as a published composer. He may have started composing this trio even before he moved from his native Bonn to Vienna, or maybe it coincided with his studies in Vienna under Haydn, who understandably praised this piece at its premiere. Eric Ewazen provides a listener-friendly song cycle for singer and chamber ensemble, and an all-star assembly of string players unveils a rich-toned, ever-so-Russian quintet written in 1892 by Alexander Glazunov, a figure increasingly championed by chamber aficionados.
Program
BEETHOVEN
Piano Trio No. 1 in E-flat Major, Op. 1, No. 1
ERIC EWAZEN
SeaSkye Songs for Flute, Violin, Cello, Piano, Soprano and Percussion (2010) (world premiere version)
GLAZUNOV
Cello Quintet in A Major, Op. 39
Artists
Marya Martin, Ani Kavafian, Arnaud Sussmann, Cynthia Phelps, Carter Brey,
Peter Wiley, Jeewon Park, Susan Narucki, Ayano Kataoka
Week Two
BCMF: OFFBEAT- PRIMED FOR DISCOVERY
Thursday, August 5, 6:30 – 7:30 pm
Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church
This foursome is a chameleon among string quartets, comfortably crossing boundaries to touch down in terrain we don’t often associate with classic chamber ensembles. Whatever pathways today’s composers want to explore, Ethel is eager to follow. In the process, these four open-minded musicians have turned into composers themselves. This program includes compositions by each of the group’s multi-talented members, along with other works in which classical traditions rub shoulders with up-to-date musical exploration.
Program
MARCELLO ZARVOS
Arrival (2000)
DOROTHY LAWSON
Grandmother (2006)
TERRY RILEY
Sunrise of the Planetary Dream Collector (1980)
MARY ROWELL
Soft Shoe (2008)
CORNELIUS DUFALLO
Aphelion (2008)
RALPH FARRIS
2fer (2009)
PHIL KLINE
The Blue Room and Other Stories (2002)
Artists
ETHEL – Cornelius Dufallo, Mary Rowell, Ralph Farris, Dorothy Lawson
Week Two
HELPING HANDS
Sunday, August 8, 6:30 pm
Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church
Composers sometimes collaborate with one another, even across the centuries. Mozart never got around to finishing his G-major String Trio movement, so it was left to a later composer-editor to massage it into performable shape. In other cases, composers may use pre-existing works as springboards for original creations: Arvo Pärt recasts a Mozart piano sonata into a trio, Paul Brantley realizes an evocative piano partnership for Debussy’s Syrinx. Schumann was one of music’s great originals (and a bicentennial birthday boy this year), but his evergreen Piano Quartet builds on his predecessors, and especially on the fugal splendor of Bach.
Program
MOZART
String Trio Movement in G Major, K. 562e
ARVO PÄRT
Mozart-Adagio for Piano Trio (1997)
DEBUSSY
Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp
PAUL BRANTLEY
Syrinx-double: A meditation on and after Debussy for Flute and Piano (2007)
SCHUMANN
Piano Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 47
Artists
Marya Martin, David Bowlin, Cynthia Phelps, Carter Brey, Jeremy Denk, Jeewon Park, Emmanuel Ceysson
Week Three
BCMF: OFFBEAT- PATHFINDERS
Wednesday, August 11, 6:30 – 7:30 pm
Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church
This trio of piano, cello, and percussion presents new works by the British composer Richard Baker, a meticulous craftsman of a composer, and the American Paul Lansky, whose works often involve creative use of language or reflect linguistic theory. Jacob Ter Velduis (a.k.a. JacobTV) is an “avant-pop”composer from Holland who proclaims, “I pepper my music with sugar”; his Things Like That combines live performance with fragments of jazz recordings by Anita O’Day. From New York composer Annie Gosfield comes a fascinating work written for her frequent collaborators at Bang-on-A-Can from where Real Quiet sprouted.
Program
RICHARD BAKER
Gaming (2010) (world premiere)
PAUL LANSKY
Horizons (2010) (world premiere)
JACOB TER VELDHUIS
Things Like That (2009)
ANNIE GOSFIELD
Manufacture of Tangled Ivory (1995)
Artists
Real Quiet – Andrew Russo, David Cossin, Felix Fan
Week Three
WM. BRIAN LITTLE CONCERT – BUCOLIC BESTIARY
Friday, August 13, 6:00 pm – Wine tasting and appetizers; 7:00 pm Concert
Channing Sculpture Garden
Special Guest: Alan Alda
The friends and family of Brian Little invite you to enjoy a special musical evening with Alan Alda along with wines from Channing Daughters under our tent at the Channing Sculpture Garden. We’ll encounter Debussy’s famous faun, dreaming suggestive dreams, in a chamber arrangement made for connoisseurs who frequented a private musical society founded by Schoenberg. A “pet chatterbox” comes alive—thanks to San Francisco composer-and-pianist Stephen Prutsman—in a work for piano four-hands. To conclude, we open the doors of Saint-Saëns’ menagerie of lions and tortoises and kangaroos and their kin, in an irresistible interweaving of spoken and musical story-telling.
Program
DEBUSSY
Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
STEPHEN PRUTSMAN
Sarah’s Band and Her Pet Chatterbox for Two Pianos (2006)
SAINT-SAËNS
Carnival of the Animals
Artists
Marya Martin, John Snow, Romie de Guise-Langlois, Juliette Kang, Jessica Lee,
Nokuthula Ngwenyama, Eric Bartlett, Donald Palma, Pedja Muzijevic, Gilles Vonsattel,
Ayano Kataoka
Week Three
SUBTLE SOUNDS
Sunday, August 15, 6:30 pm
Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church
Last year the music world sighed farewell to Leon Kirchner, a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer who once remarked that his goal was “to possibly reveal the necessary intimacies between the past and present, which keep the art of music alive and well.” In this concert, a pair of his finely wrought chamber works are framed by classics of comparable finesse: a rarely encountered flute quartet by Mozart and Fauré’s Second Piano Quartet, in which the composer recalls the sound of church bells that wafted towards the village where he lived as a child.
Program
MOZART
Flute Quartet in G Major, K. 285a
LEON KIRCHNER
Piano Trio No. 1 (1954)
Flutings for Flute and Percussion (1973)
FAURÉ
Piano Quartet No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 45
Artists
Marya Martin, Juliette Kang, Nokuthula Ngwenyama, Fred Sherry, Gilles Vonsattel, Ayano Kataoka
Week Four
SKIPPING A CENTURY
Wednesday, August 18, 7:30 pm
Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church
Two masterworks of the nineteenth century keep company with a pair of contenders from the twenty-first. Time stands still in Schubert’s magical Notturno, an outtake originally intended for one of his full-scale piano trios. We find Brahms at his most luxurious in his A-major Piano Quartet; this longest of his chamber works displays the complexity and variety we expect of its composer. Transparent, luminous textures mark the music of both Sean Hickey and Bruce MacCombie. Anyone who heard MacCombie’s “Greeting” we performed last season won’t want to miss this new work commissioned by the festival.
Program
SCHUBERT
Notturno in E-flat Major for Piano Trio, D. 897
SEAN HICKEY
Left at the Fork in the Road for Flute, Clarinet and Bassoon (2003)
BRUCE MACCOMBIE
Light Upon the Turning Leaf for Flute, Clarinet, Bassoon, Violin, Viola, Cello and Piano
(BCMF commission)
BRAHMS
Piano Quartet in A Major, Op. 26
Artists
Marya Martin, Anthony McGill, Judith LeClair, Stefan Jackiw, Beth Guterman, Edward Arron,
Shai Wosner
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