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THE CHA MB E R A RTS S E RI E S AT D UKE PE RF ORM A NCES
THE CHAMBER ARTS SOCIETY OF DURHAM AT DUKE UNIVERSITY
FROM THE DIRECTOR OF THE CHAMBER ARTS SOCIETY O O O
The number of first-rate groups performing chamber music has increased dramatically in the past several years. That becomes a luxury for us as a chamber music society — a luxury we can explore with great profit and delight. This season, seven of our eight performing groups will appear on our stage for the first time. How exciting, to have the Parker Quartet here — a dazzling young group, now Harvard University’s resident quartet — and the Danish String Quartet — one of Europe’s most acclaimed ensembles — and the Cuarteto Casals — the first Spanish quartet in our long history. All of our newcomers will bring us fresh faces and new insights into this most engaging of all repertoires. As we begin our seventieth season, please remember that we depend on you not only for ticket purchases, but also for (tax deductible) contributions, without which this sumptuous series cannot continue to exist at its remarkably high level of quality. We have some of the greatest talent in the world here, performing in one of this country’s finest venues. Your help is needed. Best wishes for this exceptionally fine year of music, George D. Gopen, Director Chamber Arts Society of Durham
COVER PHOTO: VIOLINIST JENNIFER KOH, PHOTO BY JUERGEN FRANK.
CHAMBER ARTS SERIES
BR E NTA NO S TR I NG QUART ET O O O
S A T U RDA Y , S E P T E MBE R 2 6 | 8 PM BA L DWIN A U DIT O R I U M Tickets: $38 • $32 • $15 Age 30 & Under $10 Duke Students
Over the course of twenty years, the Brentano String Quartet has built a broad discography of the central European canon and new music alike, earning a reputation as one of America’s great veteran ensembles. The Philadelphia Inquirer notes their “seemingly infallible instincts for finding the center of gravity in every phrase and music gesture.” The evening opens with offerings from Bach’s Art of the Fugue, the landmark collection the composer worked on for the last decade of his life and left unfinished. These experiments in form remain a pinnacle of contrapuntal writing, and have been transcribed for dozens of different ensembles. The complexity of Bach serves well as a context for both the early lyricism of Mendelssohn's op. 12 and the mature passion of Brahms' op.67.
PROGRAM:
J.S. Bach: Selections from Art of the Fugue Mendelssohn: String Quartet No. 1 in E-flat Major, op. 12 Brahms: String Quartet No. 3 in B-flat Major, op.67
2015 | 2016
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SATURDA Y, OCTO BE R 17 | 8 P M B A LDW IN A UDIT O RIUM
S ATU R D AY, NO V E M B E R 7 | 8 PM B AL D W I N AU D I TO R I U M
Tickets: $42 • $36 • $15 Age 30 & Under $10 Duke Students
Tickets: $38 • $32 • $15 Age 30 & Under $10 Duke Students
Characterized by “intense focus and a striking unanimity of gesture” (The New York Times), Cuarteto Casals is the first Spanish string quartet to achieve a genuinely international profile. They visit Duke with a program of three treasures of the standard repertoire, rendered with their unmistakable brand of bold and expressive playing.
The announcement of the Tokyo String Quartet’s retirement in 2013 marked the end of an illustrious era. Now, their legacy is resurrected and channeled into the piano trio repertoire with the brand new Montrose Trio, featuring Martin Beaver and Clive Greensmith of the Tokyo alongside pianist Jon Kimura Parker. The Montrose bring their “sumptuous, beautifully blended sonority” (The Strad) to a varied program of works by Turina, Beethoven, and Brahms. The program begins with Turina’s second piano trio, which combines Spanish folk rhythms, impressionistinspired harmonic vocabulary, and shimmering sonic effects. Beethoven’s op. 1, no. 1 was written very early in the composer’s career; it is youthful with an undercurrent of tragedy. Op. 8 was drafted by Brahms as a youth but rewritten towards the end of his career, making it one of the most mature of his chamber works.
Mozart’s Quartet K. 387 was the first of his six “Haydn Quartets,” a cycle that heralded a shift toward increased chromaticism by integrating some of Haydn’s vocabulary into his style. The Financial Times raves that the Casals’ interpretations of these quartets are “bold in contrasts and almost Beethovenian in their mettlesome thrust.” Shostakovich’s Quartet No. 5 finds him in trademark form, equal parts sardonic, savage, and charming. The concert concludes with Ravel’s beloved String Quartet in F, originally intended as an application to Conservatoire de Paris — he was rejected — but now acknowledged as one of the great works of impressionism in any medium.
PROGRAM: PROGRAM:
Joaquín Turina: Piano Trio No. 2 in B Minor, op. 76
Mozart: String Quartet No. 14 in G Major, K. 387 (“Spring”)
Beethoven: Piano Trio No. 1 in E-flat Major, op. 1
Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 5 in B-flat Major, op. 92
Brahms: Piano Trio No. 1 in B Major, op. 8
Ravel: String Quartet in F Major
S U B S C R I B E TO T H E C H A M B E R A R T S S E R I E S A N D G E T A L L 8 C O N C E R T S F O R $ 180 . 2015 | 2016
CHAMBER ARTS SERIES
HORN TRIO : E R IC RU S KE , J E NNI FER FRAUTS CHI & GLOR I A CHIEN O O O
S A T U RDA Y , DE C E MB E R 5 | 8 PM BA L DWIN A U DIT O R I U M Tickets: $38 • $32 • $15 Age 30 & Under $10 Duke Students
Eric Ruske (horn), Jennifer Frautschi (violin), and Gloria Chien (piano) join forces at Baldwin Auditorium with a slate of rare and moving repertoire for horn trio. The New York Times raved that Ruske’s playing “enchants by virtue of its confidence, imagination, and ebullient virtuosity.” Frautschi’s playing has been praised by Le Soleil for its “strength and palpable intensity.” The Boston Globe applauded Chien’s “wondrously rich palette of colors, which she mixes with dashing bravado.” Brahms’ Horn Trio is a quietly exquisite part of his chamber music catalogue, considered by many aficionados to be their favorite piece of chamber music by anyone. Originally scored for the more melancholic Waldhorn (“natural” horn, without valves), it has become a benchmark for all composers trying their hand at this unusual ensemble. Among those composers is György Ligeti, whose Horn Trio was a watershed moment in his catalogue, signaling a shift toward a highly rhythmic and polymodal style he claimed was “neither modern nor postmodern.” These two works anchor the program, complemented with sonatas by Schumann and Brahms.
PROGRAM:
Brahms: Violin Sonata No. 3, op. 108 Ligeti: Trio for Horn, Violin, and Piano Schumann: Fantasiestücke for Horn and Piano, op. 73 Brahms: Horn Trio in E-flat Major, op. 40
2015 | 2016
J E NNI FE R KOH & S HAI WO SNER O O O
SA TURDA Y , JA N UA RY 30 | 8 P M | B AL D W I N AU D I TO R I U M Tickets: $42 • $36 • $15 Age 30 & Under • $10 Duke Students
Acclaimed and adventurous artists Jennifer Koh (violin) and Shai Wosner (piano) come together for a performance of Beethoven’s three great Sonatas for Piano and Violin, op. 30. The New York Times declared that “Mr. Wosner’s singing tone and expressive musicality complemented Ms. Koh’s insightful, richly hued playing.” In this program, Koh and Wosner create a compositional conversation between Beethoven and American composer Andrew Norman, from whom they have commissioned companion pieces to Beethoven's violin sonatas. Norman, whose music is often inspired by architecture, has been praised by The New York Times for his “daring juxtapositions and dazzling colors.” In response to the rhythmic elegance of op. 30, no. 1, the dramatic syncopated sforzandi of no. 3, and the expressive piano part that predominates in no. 2, Norman's compositions shed new light on a set of classics.
PROGRAM:
Beethoven: Sonata for Piano and Violin No. 5 in A Major, op. 30, no. 1 Andrew Norman: Short work written in response to Beethoven op. 30 Beethoven: Sonata for Piano and Violin No. 8 in G Major, op. 30, no. 3 Andrew Norman: Short work written in response to Beethoven op. 30 Beethoven: Sonata for Piano and Violin No. 7 in C Minor, op. 30, no. 2
CHAMBER ARTS SERIES
DA NI S H S TRI NG QUART ET O O O
SA TURDA Y , F E BRU A RY 13 | 8 P M | B AL D W I N AU D I TO R I U M Tickets: $42 • $36 • $15 Age 30 & Under • $10 Duke Students
One of the most exciting developments in chamber music over the last ten years has been the emergence of the Denmark- and Norway-based Danish String Quartet. They have been playing together since the age of fifteen, and tackle a remarkable variety of repertoire — Brahms, Nielsen, Scandinavian folk tunes, jazz standards — with equal rigor and thoughtfulness. They recently performed on NPR’s popular Tiny Desk Concerts series, where they were lauded for their “warmth, wit, beautiful tone, and technical prowess.”
In Durham, these four exceptional and energetic players dive into an all-Beethoven program, starting with his mastery of the form in op. 18, and culminating in the complexity and emotional depth of two of his colossal late quartets, op. 135 and op. 131. The latter is routinely considered Beethoven’s most strikingly innovative achievement, with its nearly improvisatory wanderings between permutations of a few central themes. Stravinsky once called it “perfect, inevitable, inalterable.”
PROGRAM:
Beethoven: String Quartet No. 6 in B-flat Major, op. 18 Beethoven: String Quartet No. 16 in F Major, op. 135
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Beethoven: String Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp Minor, op. 131
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SA TURDA Y , MA RC H 12 | 8 P M | B AL D W I N AU D I TO R I U M Tickets: $38 • $32 • $15 Age 30 & Under • $10 Duke Students
The highly acclaimed Parker Quartet brings “pinpoint precision and a spectacular sense of urgency” (Boston Globe) to their broad repertoire and multitude of musical collaborations. Recently appointed to the faculty of Harvard University’s Department of Music, they are quickly becoming known as formidable interpreters of romantic and contemporary music. Beethoven’s op. 95 Quartet — dubbed “Serioso” for its blustery first movement — is by far the shortest in his catalogue. It is his last word in
the genre before moving on to the sprawling late quartets, and is by comparison a masterpiece of compactness and intensity. Op. 95 will be followed by a new piece by Chicago composer Augusta Read Thomas, written “in celebration of the Meselson-Stahl DNA replication discovery, 1958.” After intermission, the quartet is joined by their former teacher, GRAMMY Awardwinning violist Kim Kashkashian, for Dvorˇák’s Quintet op. 97, written during his great period of blending a Bohemian idiom with American musical sensibilities.
PROGRAM:
Beethoven: String Quartet No. 11 in F Minor, op. 95 ("Serioso") Augusta Read Thomas: Helix Spirals
Dvořák: String Quartet No. 3 in E-flat Major, op. 97
S U B S C R I B E TO T H E C H A M B E R A R T S S E R I E S A N D G E T A L L 8 C O N C E R T S F O R $ 180 . 2015 | 2016
CHAMBER ARTS SERIES
E M E RS ON S TR I NG QUARTET O O O
S A T URDA Y , A P RIL 2 | 8 PM BA L DWIN A UDITO R I U M Tickets: $48 • $42 • $15 Age 30 & Under $10 Duke Students
The Emerson String Quartet has been called “the one indispensible quartet” (Newsday). In their forty-year career they have made unparalleled contributions to American chamber music, amassing thirty recordings, nine GRAMMYs, and a rare induction into the Classical Music Hall of Fame. They are longtime guests of the Chamber Arts Society, most recently gracing the stage in 2013, newly energized by the addition of cellist Paul Watkins. The evening’s program begins with Haydn’s tuneful and patriotic “Emperor” Quartet, followed by Bartók’s densely beautiful Fourth Quartet, whose five movements form a palindrome of tempo and intensity and are encrypted with Hungarian folk tunes. Schubert’s posthumous Quartet in G is a fitting culmination not only of this concert, but also of this year's CAS Series as a whole. This work finds the composer at his most deeply engaged with modal mixture and common tone modulations. The effect is a winding, sometimes disorienting, and ultimately satisfying journey, and a crowning achievement of First Viennese School chamber music.
PROGRAM:
Haydn: String Quartet No. 3 in C Major, op. 76 (“Emperor”) Bartók: String Quartet No. 4 in C Major, Sz. 91 Schubert: String Quartet No. 15 in G Major, D. 887
S U B S C R I B E TO T H E C H A M B E R A R T S S E R I E S A N D G E T A L L 8 C O N C E R T S F O R $ 180 . 2015 | 2016
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T H Y M OS QUA RTE T
SHANGHAI QUART ET
CHRISTOPH ESCHENBACH
WU MAN
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SUNDA Y, JA NU A RY 24 | 7 P M B A LDWIN A UDIT O RIUM
F R I D AY, APR I L 8 | 8 PM B AL D W I N AU D I TO R I U M
Tickets: $42 • $36 • $15 Age 30 & Under $10 Duke Students
Tickets: $38 • $32 • $15 Age 30 & Under $10 Duke Students
The last time Paris-based Thymos Quartet visited the United States, The Washington Post called their Kennedy Center performance “detailed down to the last atom, and overflowing with human experience.” The Thymos visit Durham with a program of Schubert and living French composer Olivier Dejours. The Thymos are joined by the elegant pianist and famed conductor Christoph Eschenbach, hailed by the Los Angeles Times for his “crystalline tone” and “hypnotic rhythmic animation” in his interpretations of the music of Schubert.
In the spring, we offer a very special program set well outside the boundaries of standard repertoire: the acclaimed Shanghai Quartet and pipa (Chinese lute) virtuoso Wu Man join forces to perform three new pieces by contemporary Chinese composers for string quartet and pipa.
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Called “wonderfully ferocious and illuminating” by The Washington Post, the Shanghai are recognized for their unique fluency in both Eastern folk and Western Classical idioms. This program showcases their exceptional stylistic range, with works by film composer Tan Dun and a world premiere from Shanghai’s own second violinist Yi-Wen Jiang. Dun, who achieved international fame for his score for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, blends elements of Western avant-garde, Chinese opera, and sounds of nature into one of today’s most remarkable musical voices. The program concludes with Zhao Jiping & Zhao Lin's Quintet for Pipa and String Quartet.
Opening the evening is Schubert’s Quartet No. 13, “Rosamunde,” written when the composer took a break from writing lieder to focus on larger-scale works. This is followed by the world premiere of Olivier Dejours’ string quartet, a work that embodies Schubertian melodic values. The concert culminates in Schubert’s enduringly popular “Trout” Quintet, a work that spins seemingly infinite variations from the melody of a single Lied.
PROGRAM: PROGRAM:
Schubert: String Quartet No. 13 in A Minor, D. 804 (“Rosamunde”)
Tan Dun: Ghost Opera
Olivier Dejours: String Quartet No. 17 (“Creation”)
Yi-Wen Jiang: Chinese folk song arrangement
Schubert: Piano Quintet in A Major, D. 667 (“The Trout”)
Zhao Jiping & Zhao Lin: Quintet for Pipa and String Quartet
2015 | 2016
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PLEASE INDICATE WHICH PERFORMANCES YOU WILL NOT ATTEND: ❒ BRENTANO STRING QUARTET Saturday, September 26
❒ JENNIFER KOH & SHAI WOSNER Saturday, January 30
❒ CUARTETO CASALS Saturday, October 17
❒ DANISH STRING QUARTET Saturday, February 13
❒ MONTROSE TRIO Saturday, November 7
❒ PARKER QUARTET WITH KIM KASHKASHIAN, VIOLA Saturday, March 12
❒ RUSKE-FRAUTSCHI-CHIEN HORN TRIO Saturday, December 5
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CAS ADVISORY BOARD FOR THE 2015/2016 SEASON George Gopen, Director; Jonathan Bagg; Caroline Bruzelius; Robert Bryant, Director Emeritus; David Liu; Horst Meyer; Ralf Michaels, Associate Director; Stephen Teitsworth; and Aaron Greenwald, Executive Director of Duke Performances, ex officio.
CAS SUPPORTERS The 2015/2016 Chamber Arts Series is supported by Duke Performances, the Jacob Joseph and Ruth Marsey Blum Endowment Fund, the Robert and Margaret Boyer Endowment Fund, the Edith London Endowment Fund for the Chamber Arts Society, the Ernest W. Nelson Fund for the Performing Arts, and the Endowment for Wind Instruments.
VOCAL ENSEMBLE SERIES & PIANO RECITAL SERIES Subscriptions for Duke Performances’ Vocal Ensemble Series and Piano Recital Series go on sale June 23. Subscriptions are available by phone Monday through Friday from 11 am to 6 pm at 919-684-4444 or in person
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SHANGHAI QUARTET WITH WU MAN, PIPA Friday, April 8
THYMOS QUARTET WITH CHRISTOPH ESCHENBACH, PIANO Sunday, January 24
ADDITIONAL CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERTS OF INTEREST TO CAS SUBSCRIBERS
EMERSON STRING QUARTET Saturday, April 2
PARKER QUARTET WITH KIM KASHKASHIAN, VIOLA Saturday, March 12
DANISH STRING QUARTET Saturday, February 13
JENNIFER KOH & SHAI WOSNER Saturday, January 30
RUSKE-FRAUTSCHI-CHIEN HORN TRIO Saturday, December 5
MONTROSE TRIO Saturday, November 7
CUARTETO CASALS Saturday, October 17
BRENTANO STRING QUARTET Saturday, September 26
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