Messiaen, Quartet for the End of Time

with Cameron Daly, violin, Jose Franch-Ballester, clarinet, and Benjamin Hochman, piano

Program

• Darius Milhaud, La création du monde – Suite de concert pour piano et quatour à cordes, Op. 81b

• George Rochberg, Between Two Worlds (Ukiyo-e III) for flute & piano

• Pavel Haas, Wind Quintet, Op. 10

• Alban Berg, Adagio from Kammerkonzert for violin, clarinet & piano

• Erich Korngold, Suite for two violins, cello & piano left-hand, Op. 23

The period between the wars was a hotbed of innovation bustling with new styles and means of expression. Korngold straddles the line between golden lyricism and unbridled bravado with a rare late Romantic treasure, and Haas mingles Czech folk songs with fanciful dances and prayerful synagogue music. Milhaud offers a joy-filled homage to the Jazz Age, and Rochberg paints a shimmering portrait of the floating world…between then and there, here and now…

Program

• Darius Milhaud, La création du monde – Suite de concert pour piano et quatour à cordes, Op. 81b

• George Rochberg, Between Two Worlds (Ukiyo-e III) for flute & piano

• Pavel Haas, Wind Quintet, Op. 10

• Alban Berg, Adagio from Kammerkonzert for violin, clarinet & piano

• Erich Korngold, Suite for two violins, cello & piano left-hand, Op. 23

The period between the wars was a hotbed of innovation bustling with new styles and means of expression. Korngold straddles the line between golden lyricism and unbridled bravado with a rare late Romantic treasure, and Haas mingles Czech folk songs with fanciful dances and prayerful synagogue music. Milhaud offers a joy-filled homage to the Jazz Age, and Rochberg paints a shimmering portrait of the floating world…between then and there, here and now…

Boccherini, Sonata in E-flat Major

Imogen Holst, The Fall of the Leaf

Evan Williams, Cantigas

Reena Esmail, Varsha

Poulenc, Cello Sonata

with Steven Beck, piano

Boccherini, Sonata in E-flat Major

Imogen Holst, The Fall of the Leaf

Menotti, Suite for Two Cellos and Piano

Reena Esmail, Varsha

Poulenc, Cello Sonata

with Wesley Baldwin, cello and Katherine Benson, piano

Imogen Holst, The Fall of the Leaf

Reena Esmail, Varsha

Boccherini, Sonata in E-flat Major

with Ellie W. McCormack, cello

Imogen Holst, The Fall of the Leaf

Reena Esmail, Varsha

Boccherini, Sonata in E-flat Major

with Erin Ellis, cello

Program

• Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Quartet No. 3 in C Major, WoO 36

• Leonard Bernstein, Sonata for clarinet & piano

• Chinary Ung, Child Song for flute, violin, cello & piano

• George Enescu, Octet in C Major, Op. 7 (1900)

Every superhero has an origin story, a beginning that illustrates their character and sets them on the path ahead. Bernstein’s first published work offers glimpses of the giant he would become. Chinary Ung unleashes his creativity, drawing on traditional Cambodian music to push his art form forward. Beethoven takes his first steps to break free from Classical constraints, and Enescu displays feats of strength with an epic, wildly ambitious work of voluptuous romanticism, Romanian flavor, and near-impossible virtuosity.

Program

• Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Quartet No. 3 in C Major, WoO 36

• Leonard Bernstein, Sonata for clarinet & piano

• Chinary Ung, Child Song for flute, violin, cello & piano

• George Enescu, Octet in C Major, Op. 7 (1900)

Every superhero has an origin story, a beginning that illustrates their character and sets them on the path ahead. Bernstein’s first published work offers glimpses of the giant he would become. Chinary Ung unleashes his creativity, drawing on traditional Cambodian music to push his art form forward. Beethoven takes his first steps to break free from Classical constraints, and Enescu displays feats of strength with an epic, wildly ambitious work of voluptuous romanticism, Romanian flavor, and near-impossible virtuosity.

Week-long residency at the University of Maine featuring a masterclass and recital:

Boccherini, Sonata in E-flat Major

Imogen Holst, The Fall of the Leaf

Menotti, Suite for Two Cellos and Piano

Reena Esmail, Varsha

Poulenc, Cello Sonata

with Noreen Silver, cello and Phillip Silver, piano

PROGRAM

Luigi Boccherini, Sonata in E-flat Major

Evan Williams, Cantigas

Reena Esmail, Varsha

Francis Poulenc, Sonata for Cello and Piano, FP 143

with Carlin Ma, piano

Program

• Ernest Bloch, Three Nocturnes for violin, cello & piano (1924)

• Arnold Schoenberg, Ein Stelldichein (A Rendezvous) for oboe, clarinet, violin, cello & piano

• Earl Kim, Exercises en Route for soprano, flute, oboe, clarinet, violin, cello & 2 percussion

• Franz Schubert, String Quintet in C Major, Op. 163, D. 956

Interior passion meets exterior beauty in a program of poetic resonance, legacy, and memory. Earl Kim examines the passage of time and the nature of our existence through the arresting poetry of Samuel Beckett, and Kim’s teachers, Bloch and Schoenberg, share miniature twilight journeys of color and character. Composed in the final weeks of his life, Schubert’s Cello Quintet closes the circle on our exercises in living, remembering, and feeling.

Program

• Ernest Bloch, Three Nocturnes for violin, cello & piano (1924)

• Arnold Schoenberg, Ein Stelldichein (A Rendezvous) for oboe, clarinet, violin, cello & piano

• Earl Kim, Exercises en Route for soprano, flute, oboe, clarinet, violin, cello & 2 percussion

• Franz Schubert, String Quintet in C Major, Op. 163, D. 956

Interior passion meets exterior beauty in a program of poetic resonance, legacy, and memory. Earl Kim examines the passage of time and the nature of our existence through the arresting poetry of Samuel Beckett, and Kim’s teachers, Bloch and Schoenberg, share miniature twilight journeys of color and character. Composed in the final weeks of his life, Schubert’s Cello Quintet closes the circle on our exercises in living, remembering, and feeling.

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN

String Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 74 “Harp”

SCCS favorites Rachel Lee Priday, Mara Gearman, and Sarah Rommel perform Dmitry Sitkovetsky’s arrangement of Bach’s Goldberg Variations for string trio. They are then joined by SCCS’s Artistic Director Svend Rønning in Bedřich Smetana’s String Quartet No.1 to honor Smetana’s 200th birthday.

• J.S. Bach/Dmitry Sitkovetsky: Goldberg Variations for String Trio

• Bedřich Smetana: String Quartet No.1 in E-minor “From my Life”

Program

• Giacomo Puccini, Crisantemi for string quartet

• Charlotte Bray, Fire Burning in Snow for soprano, oboe, clarinet, violin & cello – US premiere

• Gordon Jacob, Sextet in B-flat Major for piano & winds, Op. 6

• Sergei Rachmaninoff, Trio élégiaque No. 2 in d minor, Op. 9

Puccini shares a musical bouquet in memory of a friend, and Charlotte Bray reflects on obsession, desire, solitude, and lost love. Dedicated “to the memory of a great artist,” Rachmaninoff’s tribute to Tchaikovsky was composed in a flurry of emotion in just five weeks, revealing celestial glimpses of his mentor in a rapturous outpouring of pathos and passion.

Program

• Giacomo Puccini, Crisantemi for string quartet

• Charlotte Bray, Fire Burning in Snow for soprano, oboe, clarinet, violin & cello – US premiere

• Gordon Jacob, Sextet in B-flat Major for piano & winds, Op. 6

• Sergei Rachmaninoff, Trio élégiaque No. 2 in d minor, Op. 9

Puccini shares a musical bouquet in memory of a friend, and Charlotte Bray reflects on obsession, desire, solitude, and lost love. Dedicated “to the memory of a great artist,” Rachmaninoff’s tribute to Tchaikovsky was composed in a flurry of emotion in just five weeks, revealing celestial glimpses of his mentor in a rapturous outpouring of pathos and passion.

Brahms, String Sextet in G Major, Op. 3

Program

• Lili Boulanger, Nocturne et cortège for violin & piano

• Eric Moe, Frozen Hours Melt Melodiously into the Past for flute, clarinet, string trio & piano

• Zoltán Kodály, Duo for violin & cello, Op. 7

• Claude Debussy, Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé for soprano & piano

• Ernest Chausson, Piano Quartet in A Major, Op. 30

From the streets of Paris to the Hungarian countryside, we begin our second quarter-century with a program of beauty, light, and joie de vivre. Kodály’s fiddler greets us with wild abandon, Eric Moe transports us to a luminous, glowing past, and Debussy conjures a universe of shifting color and sensual dreams. Chausson’s piano quartet is a one-of-a-kind masterpiece of elegance, warmth, and endless mélodie.