Bard Music Festival
Program Eight • The Pinnacle of Achievement
August 15
Bard Music Festival
August 15
Bard’s next chamber concert, Program Eight, “The Pinnacle of Achievement,” celebrates the music of Mozart and Joseph Haydn, when both were in their prime. Featured works include Mozart’s String Quintet in G minor, a profound, dark-hued masterpiece, written during his father’s final illness; several of Mozart’s finest lieder; and his Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, perhaps the greatest of his concertos, in the chamber arrangement to which he gave his blessing, by his student Johann Nepomuk Hummel. Known for good reason as the “Father of the String Quartet,” the elder Haydn brother is represented by the third of his “Russian” quartets, a mature work nicknamed “The Joke,” and perhaps one of those that inspired the six that Mozart dedicated to him.
1 pm • Preconcert Talk
1:30 pm • Performance: Ariel Quartet; Keith Bonner, flute; Lisa Marie Rogali, mezzo-soprano; Piers Lane and Erika Switzer, piano; and others
Wolfgang Amadé Mozart (1756–91)
String Quintet in G minor, K516 (1787)
Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K491 (1786/1831); arr. J. N. Hummel
Songs
Joseph Haydn (1732–1809)
String Quartet in C, Op. 33, No. 3 Hob. III:39 (1781)
Artwork: Constanze Mozart, Joseph Haydn, and Wolfgang Amadé Mozart, drawing from the 19th century. Photo: Lebrecht Music & Arts. Public domain.
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