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This Weekend: Baroque Italian Opera Arias and Duets and T

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August 18, 2014 BRING THIS NEWSLETTER WITH YOU FOR A CHANCE TO WIN A PRIZE

A WEEKEND OF CLASSICAL MUSIC SPANNING 4 CENTURIES


SATURDAY,AUGUST 23, 6:30PM: LA TIRANNIA DELL’AMORE; THE TYRANNY OF LOVE.
ALL THE PASSION AND EMOTION OF 17th AND 18th CENTURY ITALIAN OPERA

Hear Christine Gevert, harpsichord, and her colleagues, countertenor Nicholas Tamagnaand soprano Sarah Moulton, bring to life the fiery and tragic, the drama and starry-eyed love of these romantic times. Hear Lo t’abbraccio from Handel’s Rodelinda: “I embrace you and this farewell that takes us apart from one another is crueler and more bitter than death.” Or also from Rodelinda, “l’empio rigor del fato,” a cry against pitiless fate.

Come and immerse yourself in the Baroque Age, when emotions were vividly expressed in dramatic verse and unforgettable music. Come and enjoy this music in Gordon hall with its wonderful acoustics and its intimate size.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 24, 3PM: WELCOME TO MORE RECENT TIMES WITH THE BLAIR STRING QUARTET AND MELVIN CHEN, PIANO.
This concert opens with one of Haydn’s last two quartets, the G Major, Opus 77 # 1, written for the same prince who commissioned Beethoven to write his first quartets, the Opus 18 quartets.

Then we move into the 19th century for Mendelssohn’s D Major String Quartet, Opus 44 #1. Written during a period when Mendelssohn’s life was going wonderfully well, this is a “spirited” quartet to quote Mendelssohn himself.

And now we welcome another of Music Mountain’s favorites, the pianist Melvin Chen, who, in addition to his other activities, is Deputy Dean of the Yale School of Music. Melvin and the Blair String Quartet will play the Bloch Piano Quintet # 1, a 20th century work, which has a long history at Music Mountain, first played here on August 27, 1933 almost exactly 82 years ago on Sunday. This was the piece that the distinguished New York Times Music Critic Olin Downes, called ”The greatest work in its form since the piano quintets of Brahms and Cesar Franck.”
From its dark and magnetic opening right though to its conclusion, it is a griping and riveting work.

This is a fascinating musical weekend, representing many different periods and styles of music.

I hope you will come and share it with us.

Nick

Nicholas Gordon, President
Music Mountain, Inc.

Tickets at musicmountain.org or

860.824.7126

Listen to Past Chamber Concerts online!
Don't forget that there are now Music Mountain concerts available to you every week, any time of the day or night, regardless of where you are in the world, regardless of what time zone you may be in. Go to www.musicmountain.org, click on “Listen to past concerts on demand". You will come to the Music Mountain page on www.InstantEncore.com.

Scroll down to the small picture of a Quartet, click on it, scroll down, click on the play button. A concert will start and you can see all the details of the performance. Program notes are also there for you to view.

Did you know that WHDD Radio (1020AM, 91.9FM), Sharon, and on the Internet at whddfm.com, broadcasts Music Mountain concerts at 2 pmon Saturdays, and concerts from earlier seasons, at 7 pm on Mondays? Jazz concerts from Music Mountain are also available as podcasts on their website.

with support from the Connecticut
Commission on Culture and Tourism
www.cultureandtourism.org

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