Summer Festival: From Bach

Music@Menlo: World-Class Artists, Chamber Music at Its Finest

This vibrant program traces that influence through works by Haydn, Mendelssohn, and Brahms, each drawing on Bach’s mastery of counterpoint and fugue. Completing the journey, John Corigliano’s poignant Fancy on a Bach Air pays tribute to Bach’s revolutionary contributions to the cello and its emergence as a solo instrument.

PROGRAM
Johann Sebastian Bach
Three Fugues from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I

Joseph Haydn
String Quartet in C Major, op. 20, no. 2, Hob. III:32 Sun

Felix Mendelssohn
Fugue for String Quartet in E-flat, op. 81 • String Sextet no. 2 in G major, op. 36

ARTISTS
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, piano; Chad Hoopes, Areta Zhulla, violins; Matthew Lipman, Paul Neubauer, violas; David Finckel, Jonathan Swensen, cellos
Viano Quartet:
Lucy Wang, Hao Zhou, violins; Aiden Kane, viola; Tate Zawadiuk, cello

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