Rachmaninoff, Say, & Brahms

This evening presents piano trios of two renowned pianist-composers. Rachmaninoff composed his first Trio élégiaque at the age of nineteen. Though still a student in Moscow, this early work features the lush harmonies and flashes of pianistic virtuosity for which Rachmaninoff would become famous. Its lugubrious conclusion is followed by the celestial trio of Turkish-born virtuoso Fazil Say, written the year after Felix Baumgartner took his record-breaking skydive from the stratosphere. The concert finishes with Brahms’s magisterial first Piano Quartet, complete with its irrepressibly crowd-pleasing Finale ‘alla zingarese’.

SERGEI RACHMANINOFF
Trio élégiaque No. 1 in G Minor
Sergiu Schwartz, violin • David Ying, cello • Tao Lin, piano

FAZIL SAY
Space Jump, Op. 46
Itamar Zorman, violin • Ahrim Kim, cello • Elinor Freer, piano

Intermission

JOHANNES BRAHMS
Piano Quartet No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 25
Janet Sung, violin • Kirsten Docter, viola • Paul Katz, cello • Yong Hi Moon, piano

Please join us following the performance for a reception at The Daniel.

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