“Tragedy and Triumph:” The Music of Brahms, Bartók, and Dvořák – Engelman Recital Hall, Baruch College, NYC

7 PM Informal Pre-Concert Talk and Q&A
7:30 PM Concert

$20 General Admission
FREE for children and students

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Each of the works on this program were written following the death of its respective composer’s mother. Their characters, however, could not be more different. While Brahms moves from one extreme to another in his magisterial fast movements to his plaintive slow movement, Bartók begins each of this final, heart-wrenching quartet’s movements with the word Mesto, or “Sadly.” One of Dvořák least-known masterworks rounds out the program with a piece that runs the gamut of human emotion: dark throughout, at times tragic, playful, and poignant, but above all, stunningly beautiful.

Program:

Johannes Brahms (1833 – 1897)
Trio for Violin, Horn, and Piano in Eb major, Op. 40 (1865)

Béla Bartók (1881 – 1945)
String Quartet No. 6, Sz. 114 (1939)

Intermission

Antonín Dvořák (1841 – 1904)
Piano Trio in F minor, Op. 65 (1883)

Manhattan Chamber Players

Andrea Casarrubios, Cello
Luke Fleming, Viola
David Fung, Piano
Adam Golka, Piano
Siwoo Kim, Violin 
Ravenna Lipchik, Violin
Grace Park, Violin
Laura Weiner, Horn