Bard Music Festival
Program Two • Between Two Worlds: London and Berlin
August 5, 2023
Program Two contextualizes Vaughan Williams among his mentors and peers, juxtaposing two of his songs with chamber works by C. Hubert Parry and Charles Villiers Stanford, his teachers at London’s Royal College of Music, and by fellow folksong-lover Max Bruch, with whom he began lessons while honeymooning in Berlin. Also featured in this program are Vaughan Williams’s contemporaries Ethel Smyth, Frank Bridge, and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, whom Stanford considered his most gifted pupil, and whose music Vaughan Williams would later champion as a conductor.
1 pm Preconcert Talk: Eric Saylor
1:30 pm Performance:: Ariel Quartet; Michael Stephen Brown, piano; Luosha Fang, viola; Horszowski Trio; Kayo Iwama, piano; Todd Palmer, clarinet; Sun-Ly Pierce, mezzo-soprano
C. Hubert Parry (1848–1918)
Suite No. 1, for violin and piano (1907)
Max Bruch (1838–1920)
Romance, Op. 85, for viola and piano (1911)
Charles Villiers Stanford (1852–1924)
Piano Trio No. 3 in A minor, “Per aspera ad astra” (1918)
Ethel Smyth (1858–1944)
Sarabande in D minor from Four Dances for piano (1880)
Ralph Vaughan WIlliams (1872–1958)
Silent Noon (1904)
Orpheus and His Lute (1904)
Frank Bridge (1879–1941)
Cherry Ripe for string quartet (1916)
Sir Roger de Coverley, “Christmas Dance” for string quartet (1922)
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1874–1912)
Clarinet Quintet, Op. 10 (1895)
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