Sat., July 23, 8:00 p.m. | Stent Family Hall
Sun., July 24, 6:00 p.m. | The Center for Performing Arts at Menlo-Atherton
Music@Menlo’s season opener marvels at the fully-fledged artistic maturity of the young Johannes Brahms. By his twentieth birthday, Brahms had mastered the Classical idiom of Mozart and the budding Romanticism of Schubert’s final works. Brahms’s Opus 8 Piano Trio, a staggeringly brilliant early masterpiece, prompted Robert and Clara Schumann to brand the composer “the young eagle.”
MOZART: Violin Sonata in e minor, K. 304 (1778)
SCHUBERT: Notturno in E-flat Major, D. 897 (ca. 1828)
SCHUMANN: Märchenerzählungen (Fairy Tales) for Clarinet, Viola, and Piano, op. 132 (1853)
BRAHMS: Scherzo in c minor, F-A-E (1853); Piano Trio in B Major, op. 8 (1853–1854, rev. 1889)
Artists
Carey Bell, clarinet; Juho Pohjonen, Wu Han, pianos; Cho-Liang Lin, Arnaud Sussmann, violins; Yura Lee, viola; David Finckel, Laurence Lesser, cellos