Bard Music Festival
Program Two • Anxieties of Influence: Models and Teachers
August 10
Program Two helps contextualize Berlioz among his predecessors, mentors, and peers. One of his little-known chamber works will be heard alongside examples by Luigi Cherubini, under whose headship he chafed at the Paris Conservatoire, and Elias Parish Alvars, whom he considered “the Liszt of the harp.”
Also featured are Carl Maria von Weber’s Invitation to the Dance–the piano piece Berlioz orchestrated for his French adaptation of Der Freischütz–and operatic excerpts by his early composition teacher Jean-François Le Sueur, fellow Prix de Rome winner Ambroise Thomas, and Italian opera composer Gaspare Spontini, whom he dubbed “the genius of the century.”
The program’s centerpiece is the substantial yet underrated C-minor String Quartet of Berlioz’s Czech-born teacher, Anton Reicha.
Program
1 pm • Preconcert Talk with Jonathan Kregor
1:30 pm • Performance
Elias Parish Alvars (1808–49)
Introduction and Variations on Bellini’s Opera
Norma, Op. 36 (1838)
Noël Wan, harp
Hector Berlioz (1803–69)
Le montagnard exilé (1822–23) (Du Boys)
Nocturne (1828) (anon.)
Jana McIntyre, soprano
Rebecca Ringle Kamarei, mezzo-soprano
Noël Wan, harp
Daniel Lippel, guitar
Jean-François Le Sueur (1760–1837)
From La caverne, ou Le repentir (1793) (Palat-Dercy)
Dans ce peril certain
Tyler Duncan, baritone
Erika Switzer, piano
Carl Maria von Weber (1786–1826)
From Oberon (1826) (Planché)
Ocean! thou mighty monster!
Jana McIntyre, soprano
Erika Switzer, piano
Ambroise Thomas (1811–96)
From Mignon (1866) (Barbier and Carré)
Connais-tu le pays
Jana McIntyre, soprano
Erika Switzer, piano
INTERMISSION
Carl Maria von Weber
Invitation to the Dance, Op. 65 (1819)
Michael Stephen Brown, piano
Luigi Cherubini (1760–1842)
Horn Sonata No. 2 (1804)
Largo—Allegro moderato
Zohar Schondorf, horn
Balourdet Quartet
Anton Reicha (1770–1836)
String Quartet in C Minor, Op. 49, No. 1 (1803)
Allegro
Adagio
Menuetto: Allegro
Finale: Allegro
Balourdet Quartet
Artists & Scholars
Jana McIntyre
Soprano
Rebecca Ringle Kamarei
Mezzo-soprano
Tyler Duncan
Baritone
Noël Wan
Harp
Michael Stephen Brown
Piano
Erika Switzer
Piano
Balourdet Quartet
Daniel Lippel
Guitar
Zohar Schondorf
Horn
Jonathan Kregor
Musicologist, Preconcert Talk
Video
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