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