French Elegance, German Passion

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Milana Elise Reiche and Rebecca Corruccini play Jean-Marie Leclairā€™s elegant Sonata in E Minor for Two Violins. A leading musical light in mid-18th-century Paris, Leclairā€™s fame today rests on virtuoso works for his own instrument: the violin. Beethovenā€™s music inhabits the opposite end of the emotional spectrum, and nowhere is his temperament more apparent than in the turbulent ā€œAppassionataā€ piano sonata. Acclaimed American pianist Orion Weiss explores Beethovenā€™s dark night of the soul.

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From Bach to Bernstein and Beyond

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A quintet of the orchestraā€™s acclaimed brass players kicks off a musical journey with music of the Renaissance. Then, Amos Yang delves into the baroque with the last of Johann Sebastian Bachā€™s iconic Cello Suites. Heading into the 1950s, Leonard Bernsteinā€™s West Side Story gets the brass treatment, while celebrated violinist Leila Josefowicz brings you into the 21st century with an excerpt from Esa-Pekka Salonenā€™s Lachen Verlernt (Laughing Unlearnt), a modern work in the form of a chaconne that neatly lends a nod back to Bach.

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Beethovenā€™s Archduke

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Festival mainstays Kristin Ahlstrom, Bjorn Ranheim, and Peter Henderson will be your guides through Beethovenā€™s Piano Trio in B-flat Major. Better known as the ā€œArchduke,ā€ its dedicatee was Archduke Rudolph of Austria, a musical dilettante and gifted amateur pianist. Full of originality, the 45-minute work was Beethovenā€™s final full-scale piano trio and ranges from joy to sadness with outbursts of bluff good humor. The workā€™s first performances with the increasingly deaf composer, accompanied by Ignaz Schuppanzigh on violin and Josef Linke on cello, would mark Beethovenā€™s last public appearance as a pianist.

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