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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