Nov 14, 2013 Borodin Quartet, Sviatoslav Richter piano For information and analysis of this work visit http://muswrite.blogspot.com/2013/12/franck-piano-quintet-in-f. Advance Program Notes. All performances are free and will be held in the Anne and Ellen Fife Theatre. The C minor piano quintet is the first of almost 70.

We’ve been drowning in music and suddenly. An eerie calm. The Santa Fe Desert Chorale fell silent after its final performance of Rachmaninoff’s All-Night Vigil on Aug. 18, and Santa Fe Opera concluded its season on Aug. 25 with a final goround of Bizet’s The Pearl Fishers, an audience-pleasing success in a summer that reached its operatic pinnacle with Rossini’s Maometto II.

The Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival wrapped things up on Aug. 20, saving the strongest ensemble on its roster to grace its final summer concerts. That ensemble was the Tokyo String Quartet, which was joined by pianist Jeremy Denk on Aug. 19 for Elgar’s Piano Quintet, and by cellist Lynn Harrell on Aug. 20 for Schubert’s C-Major String Quintet, both concerts taking place at the Lensic Performing Arts Center. (I regret that a scheduling conflict prevented me from hearing the Tokyo foursome on their own, playing a Haydn quartet on Aug. 16.) A greatly respected ensemble of international caliber, the Tokyo was established in 1969 at the Juilliard School, where its four original members, all Japanese, had traveled to work with the members of the Juilliard String Quartet. Data Toolbar Keygen Mac.

It quickly garnered important performance awards, and these helped launch an impressive career of performing, teaching (principally at the Yale School of Music, where it has been quartet in residence since 1976), and recording (with more than 40 releases on numerous labels). The group has announced that the upcoming season will be its last, and that it will play its farewell concert on July 6, 2013, in the Music Shed of Yale’s Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, a stage it has occupied as a regular presence. Kazuhide Isomura, one of the wisest violists in all of chamber music, is the only original member still with the group, although second violinist Kikuei Ikeda is also a long-timer, having served since 1974; British cellist Clive Greensmith joined the ensemble in 1999, and Canadian first violinist Martin Beaver is the newcomer, having arrived only in 2002. The foursome are noted for a tone at once burnished and clear, a sound they draw from a set of Stradivari instruments that was once owned by Paganini. This particular viola was the instrument that inspired Paganini to commission Harold in Italy from Berlioz, and the cello had been previously owned by the Mendelssohn family. The four Strads were purchased in the 1940s for use by Henri Temianka’s legendary Paganini Quartet, and in 1994 they were acquired by the Nippon Music Foundation, which provides them to the Tokyo Quartet.