MAGIC AND ALCHEMY

SATURDAY, AUGUST 5 · 7:30 PM

THE BAKER-BAUM CONCERT HALL

This concert explores the seemingly magical alchemical processes regularly used by Elizabethan composers to turn simple musical material into gold. Composers in Shakespeare’s London transformed their own music or the music of others, in turn inspiring Thomas Adès and Franz Schubert to do the same. This concert includes the U.S. premiere of Adès’ new clarinet quintet, described by the London Times after its world premiere as ‘arresting and magical” and the London Telegraph as “A triumphant premiere from our greatest living composer…”

VARIOUS A Selection of works by BYRD, DOWLAND, GIBBONS and PURCELL

Anthony Marwood, Alexi Kenney, violins; Maiya Papach, viola; Coleman Itzkoff, cello

THOMAS ADÈS Alchymia

Mark Simpson, clarinet; Alexi Kenney, Anthony Marwood, violins; Rebecca Albers, viola; Coleman Itzkoff, cello

SCHUBERT Piano Quintet in A Major, D. 667 “Trout”

Thomas Adès, piano; Tessa Lark, violin; Maiya Papach, viola; Efe Baltacigil, cello; Timothy Cobb, bass

MUSICAL PRELUDE 6:30 PM

The Baker-Baum Concert Hall

Performance by trioJEM