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Mozart and Bach Violin Masterpieces
Monday, July 29, 2019 at 6:30pm
Sun Valley Pavilion
Alasdair Neal, Conductor
Ray Chen, Violin
Juiana Athayde, Violin
Bach: Concerto in D Minor for Two Violins, BWV 1043
Mozart: Concerto No. 5 in A Major for Violin, K. 2019, “Turkish”
Virtuoso violinist Ray Chen won the Yehudi Menuhin and Queen Elizabeth competitions (the only violinist to win both), wears Armani (his sponsor), and made Forbes’s 2018 list of the 30 most influential Asians under 30. Our opening night includes Chen soloing in Mozart’s delightful and inventive 5th Violin Concerto; then joining Festival Assistant Concertmaster Juliana Athayde to weave together a beautiful stream of independent and overlapping melodies in Bach’s Double Violin Concerto.
The 20th Century Chamber Orchestra
Tuesday, July 30, 2019 at 6:30pm
Sun Valley Pavilion
Alasdair Neal, Conductor
Sameer Patel, Conductor
Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin
Stravinsky: Concerto in E-flat Major for Chamber Orchestra, “Dumbarton Oaks”
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1, Op. 25, “Classical”
Three 20th century composers riff on the styles exemplified by Bach and Mozart in the previous program. Stravinsky’s “Dumbarton Oaks” evokes Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, while Prokofiev channels Mozart and Haydn in his lovely “Classical Symphony.” Finally, Ravel’s suite for small orchestra, Le Tombeau de Couperin, harkens back to a baroque style, delivering a surprisingly light-hearted memorial for friends lost in World War I.
Thibaudet and Capuçon in Recital
Thursday, August 1, 2019 at 6:30 PM
Sun Valley Pavilion
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Piano
Gautier Capuçon, Cello
Brahms: Sonata No. 1 in E Minor for Cello and Piano, Op. 38
Shostakovich: Sonata in D Minor for Cello and Piano, Op.40
Virtuosic French artists present a stunning recital (without orchestra). Pianist and Sun Valley favorite Jean-Yves Thibaudet returns with one of the world’s leading cellists, Gautier Capuçon, for a week-long residency. Their program continues the thread of works inspired by earlier composers with Brahms’s Cello Sonata No. 1, which pays homage to Bach’s The Art of the Fugue, and Shostakovich’s Sonata in D Minor, a beautiful piece written in 1934 but structured in classical form.
