NEW GROUND

FRIDAY, AUGUST 11 · 7:30 PM

THE BAKER-BAUM CONCERT HALL

Composers step out of their comfort zone and defy their surroundings in this powerful program. Gideon Klein’s ebullient and lighthearted String Trio was composed whilst the composer was imprisoned in the Terezín prison camp just days before his deportation to Auschwitz. Beethoven charted new ground in celestial music that was baffling to his contemporaries and has come to be considered a pinnacle of human creation. Having written almost exclusively just for the piano, Chopin’s Cello Sonata represents an extraordinary effort on the part of a composer who, only a few years from the end of his life, was determined to master a genre he had never before attempted.

SIBELIUS Serenata for Two Violins and Cello, JS167

Noah Bendix-Balgley, Max Tan†, violins; Julia Lee†, cello

CHOPIN Sonata for Cello and Piano in G Minor, Op.65

Alisa Weilerstein, cello; Inon Barnatan, piano

KLEIN Trio for Violin, Viola, and Cello

Noah Bendix-Balgley, violin; Richard O’Neill, viola; Paul Wiancko, cello

BEETHOVEN String Quartet No. 8 in E Minor, Op. 59, No. 2 “Rasumovsky”

Takács Quartet