Signature Series: Two Beginnings
Two Beginnings
Greenville Concert – Fri, May 2 @ 7:30 PM
A.J. Fletcher Recital Hall on the campus of East Carolina University & Online
Raleigh Concert – Sun, May 4 @ 3:00 PM
Hayes Barton United Methodist Church & Online
Our 25th Anniversary Signature Series season concludes with beginnings. Gabriel Fauré’s Piano Quartet No. 1 in C Minor and Johannes Brahms’s Piano Quartet No. 1 in G Minor are both works that not only marked their composers’ first forays into the world of the piano quartet, but also date from early in their compositional careers. Fauré’s extraordinary quartet is vast, with a soundworld encompassing everything from melancholy to virtuosic exuberance. Brahms’s quartet, particularly its famous final movement, is dazzling from start to finish. Pianist Gilles Vonsattel, violinists/violists Ara Gregorian and Daniel Phillips, and cellist Colin Carr join forces as these Two Beginnings bring our Signature Series season to its thrilling conclusion.
PROGRAM:
Gabriel Fauré – Piano Quartet in C Minor, Op. 15
brief pause
Johannes Brahms – Piano Quartet in G Minor, Op. 25
MUSICIANS:
Gilles Vonsattel, piano
Ara Gregorian & Daniel Phillips, violin/viola
Colin Carr, cello