On Tuesday, July 5 at 7:30 pm, the Meeting House Chamber Music Festival will present three quartets—all masterpieces on a human scale—written across three centuries and in very different musical styles. The event will feature three of the festival’s favorite guest artists—violinist Heather Goodchild Wade, violist Laura Manko Sahin, and cellist Bo Ericsson—as well as the festival’s Artistic Director and pianist Donald Enos. The concert will be presented at Church of the Holy Spirit Episcopal, Orleans. 7-concert series ticket: $90. Single tickets ($25) may be purchased at the door. Complete ticketing information and program information at http://www.meetinghousemusic.org or by calling 508.896.3344.
The program will open with Mozart’s bright, melodious, and elegant Piano Quartet in E-flat Major, a masterpiece of the Classical Period. The quartet was written in 1783, not long after that new-fangled instrument, the piano, was first played in concerts. Written six decades later, Robert Schumann’s Piano Quartet includes an Andante cantabile that has been called one of the most beautiful cello themes of the Romantic Period. The work as a whole was described by a prominent reviewer of the time as “most lovely and appealing, uniting a wealth of beautiful musical ideas with soaring flights of imagination.” The British composer Frank Bridge completed his Phantasy Piano Quartet in 1910. Bridge’s most famous pupil, Benjamin Britten, described this brilliant work as “sonorous yet lucid, with clear, clean lines…. the music of a practical musician, brought up in German orthodoxy, but who loved French romanticism and conception of sound.”
A complete program listing for the 2022 season is available at http://www.meetinghousemusic.org.
The Meeting House Chamber Festival is grateful for the support of the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Cape Cod 5 Foundation, and the Mary-Louise and Ruth N. Eddy Foundation.
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