Concert Program II: Brahms the Prismatic

Tue., July 26, 8:00 p.m. | The Center for Performing Arts at Menlo-Atherton

Just as Bach’s music forever guided Brahms, so would Brahms’s music inspire composers from Schoenberg to Rachmaninov. The f minor Sonata for Two Pianos exhibits Brahms’s methodical perfectionism in crystalline form: it is an early blueprint of the seminal Opus 34 Piano Quintet, a work that audibly haunts the Piano Quintet by contemporary American composer John Harbison.

BACH: Cello Suite no. 2 in d minor, BWV 1008 (ca. 1720)
RACHMANINOV: Vocalise, op. 34, no. 14 (1912)
SCHOENBERG: Phantasy for Violin and Piano, op. 47 (1949)
HARBISON: Piano Quintet (1981)
BRAHMS: Sonata for Two Pianos in f minor, op. 34b (1864)

Artists
Alessio Bax, Lucille Chung, pianos; Jorja Fleezanis, Ian Swensen, violins; Yura Lee,viola; Laurence Lesser, cello