Beethoven & Stravinsky

The Robert Mann Chamber Music Series continues with a program featuring the Festival’s own musicians. Beethoven’s only quintet for piano and wind is rife with rhapsodic dialogue between its instruments. In Stravinsky’s bitter L’Histoire du Soldat, a WWI soldier makes a deal with the devil in order to know the future, but — after a rousing story animated by music — the cunning devil keeps the upper hand.

Artists:
Martinů:
Viviana Cumplido Wilson, flute
Austin Huntington, cello
Vivienne Spy, piano

Beethoven:
Vivienne Spy, piano
Olav Van Hezewyjk, oboe
Lou DeMartino, clarinet
Gerry Wood, horn
Wenmin Zhang, bassoon

Stravinsky:
Steve Hanusofski, clarinet
Wenmin Zhang, bassoon
Jeffrey Work, cornet
Jason Robins, trombone
Juliette Kang, violin
Matt Heller, bass
Jerry Scholl, percussion

Ezra Calvino, conductor

Program:
Bohuslav Martinů, Trio for Flute, Cello, and Piano H. 300
Ludwig van Beethoven, Quintet in E-flat Major for Piano and Winds, Op. 16
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Igor Stravinsky, The Soldier’s Tale