FALL 2008 EVENTS
GREAT ARTISTS IN THE MUSIC ROOM - THE ETERNAL BACH
The fall will be devoted to the music of J.S. Bach. From his great grandfather to his grandsons, his family produced a long line of composers; music was in their blood. Johann Sebastian, however, remains the most revered and exalted of all the Bachs. He lived through the peak of the Baroque era, at a time when Western musical instruments were quite different from what we normally hear on today's concert stage. The piano we know today didn't exist; string instruments had a different aesthetic, and wind instruments, like the oboe, flute, horn and trumpet, were radically different. Many questions thus arise: for what instruments did Bach actually write his music? Why have these instruments changed? How do these changes affect performances and interpretations of these works?

THE ETERNAL BACH: PAUL HERSH EXPLORES THE GOLDBERG VARIATIONS
Concert/Lecture in the Music Room
Sunday, October 12, 2008 at 4:00pm
Paul Hersh, lecturer, piano ~ Goldberg Variations

The fascinating pianist and professor of music at the San Francisco Conservatory returns to Caramoor to share his insights into Bach's Goldberg Variations. In an informal concert/lecture format, Mr. Hersh explores Bach's keyboard world and deepens our understanding and appreciation of this masterpiece.

THE ETERNAL BACH: BAROQUE AND MODERN INSIGHTS - SOLD OUT!*
Concert with Commentary in the Music Room
Sunday, October 19, 2008 at 4:00pm   

Monica Huggett, Baroque violin; Tim Fain, violin; Tanya Tomkins, Baroque cello; Edward Arron, cello; Michael Barrett, moderator

J.S. Bach  Partita No. 1 in B minor, BWV 1002, performed by Monica Huggett, Baroque violin
J.S. Bach  Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004 performed by Tim Fain, violin
J.S. Bach  Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007 performed by Tanya Tomkins, Baroque cello
J.S. Bach  Suite No. 4 in E-flat Major, BWV 1010 performed by Edward Arron, cello

Four briliant artists, two performing on modern instruments and two on Baroque instruments, illuminate solo works by J.S. Bach. Michael Barrett moderates a discussion with the artists that explores the nuances of modern and period instruments and of interpretive approaches to Bach's unaccompanied masterpieces. 

THE ETERNAL BACH: MUSICAL FORMS:  BACH THE MASTER CRAFTSMAN
Concert/Lecture in the Music Room
Sunday, October 26, 2008 at 4:00pm 

Andrew Rangell, lecturer, piano

Orlando Gibbons	Lord of Salisbury Pavane and Galliard
Bach	French Suite No. 1 in D minor
Bach	Prelude and Fugue in F minor, Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1
Bach	Prelude and Fugue in C# minor, Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1
Frohberger	Ricercare, C# (1654)
Beethoven	Fugue in C# minor, Op. 131 - opening movement

Pianist and musical intellect Andrew Rangell delves into Bach's extremely rich body of keyboard works with special attention to the suite form and the prelude and fugue.  Mr. Rangell places Bach's overarching endeavors into context with works of other composers written earlier and later than Bach.
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NOVEMBER  1  RISING STARS I
Saturday, 8:00pm in the Music Room  

Co-Director: Pamela Frank, Distinguished Artists: Atar Arad and Ronald Thomas
Guest Artist:  Bradley Brookshire, harpsichord
Rising Stars:  Tessa Lark, violin; Laura Lutzke, violin; David McCarroll, violin; Arnaud Sussmann, violin; Emily Deans, viola; Dimitri Murrath, viola; Dmitry Kouzov, cello; Yu-Wn Wang, cello

Bach	Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major, BWV 1048
Schoenberg	Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4
Schubert	Quintet in C Major for Two Violins, Viola, and Two Cellos, Op. 163, D.  956

NOVEMBER 2  RISING STARS II
Sunday, 4:00pm in the Music Room  

Co-Director: Pamela Frank, Distinguished Artists: Atar Arad and Ronald Thomas
Rising Stars: Tessa Lark, violin; Laura Lutzke, violin; David McCarroll, violin; Arnaud Sussmann, violin; Emily Deans, viola; Dimitri Murrath, viola; Dmitry Kouzov, cello; Yu-Wn Wang, cello

Haydn	Quartet No. 23 in F minor, Op. 20, No. 5, Hob. III:35
Beethoven	Quartet No. 9 in C Major, Op. 59, No. 3 (Razumovsky)
Mendelssohn	Quintet No. 1 in A Major, Op. 18

 

Gilles Vonsattel

THE ETERNAL BACH:  SIX KEYBOARD PERSPECTIVES  
Concert in the Music Room
Saturday, November 15, 2008 at 8:00pm   

Bradley Brookshire, harpsichordist; Vanessa Perez, John Musto, Ilya Poletaev, Gilles Vonsattel, Benjamin Hochman, pianists

J.S. Bach:

Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue (BWV 903)

Capriccio in B-flat Major, BWV 992 (On the Departure of his Most Beloved Brother)

Performed by Bradley Brookshire, harpsichord

Art of Fugue, BWV 1080; Contrapunctus No. 1; Contrapunctus No. 9; Canon alla Ottava

Performed by Gilles Vonsattel, piano

Toccata in C minor, BWV 911

Performed by Gilles Vonsattel, piano

Partita for Keyboard No. 2 in C minor, BWV 826 Performed by Vanessa Perez, piano

Partita for Keyboard No. 4 in D Major, BWV 828 Performed by Ilya Poletaev, piano

English Suite No. 5 in E minor BWV 810  Performed by Benjamin Hochman, piano

French Suite No. 5 in G Major, BWV 816 Performed by John Musto, piano

Six internationally renowned artists share their perspectives on J.S. Bach's vast keyboard repertoire. Deepening the focus of The Eternal Bach series, we will hear Bach performed on the instrument for which he composed and then peformances extending his work on the modern piano. 

NOVEMBER 22   ARIEL STRING QUARTET
Caramoor's 2008-09 Ernst Stiefel String Quartet-in-Residence
Saturday, 7:30pm ~ Music Room

Mozart	Quartet No. 19 in C Major, K. 465 (Dissonance)
Menachem Wiesenberg	Between the Sacred and the Profane for
	String Quartet, 1991
Schubert	Quartet No. 13 in A minor D.804 (Rosamunde)

THE ETERNAL BACH:  the brandenburg celebration
Concert in the Music Room
Saturday, December 13, 2008 at 8:00pm  
The Aulos Ensemble with Guest Artists

J.S. Bach	Concerto in C minor for oboe, violin, strings, and basso continuo BWV 1060
J.S. Bach	Sinfonia in D minor, BWV 35
J.S. Bach	Sinfonia in F Major, BWV 156
J.S. Bach	Sinfonia in D minor, BWV 35
J.S. Bach	Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D Major for flute, violin, obbligato harpsichord, strings, and basso continuo, BWV 1050
J.S. Bach	Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G Major for two recorders, violin, strings, and basso continuo, BWV 1049
J.S. Bach	Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F Major for recorder, oboe, trumpet, violin, strings, and basso continuo, BWV 1047

Moving this series from the private to the public Bach, the Aulos Ensemble - one of America's first and finest original instrument ensembles - returns to Caramoor with a program featuring three of the Brandenburg concerti.  Click here to find out more About the Artists.
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SPRING 2009 EVENTS

SONGS OF THE IRISH POETS
Caramoor Vocal Rising Stars
Saturday, March 14, 2009 at 8:00pm
program notes

Joelle Harvey, soprano; Liza Forrester, mezzo-soprano; Paul Appleby, tenor;  David McFerrin, baritone; Steven Blier and Michael Barrett, piano; Christopher Layer, Uilleann Pipes, Flute, & Whistle; Jessica Lee, violin; Karen Ouzounian, cello

In collaboration with the New York Festival of Song, Steven Blier, Artistic Director.

Caramoor's Inaugural Vocal Rising Stars recital program was Songs of the Irish Poets. The lyricism of Emerald Isle's greatest writes, including Thomas Moore, W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, and Paul Muldoon, as set to music by Beethoven, Britten, Balfe, Barber and others, is coupled with a group of traditional Irish songs. 

Caramoor's Vocal Rising Stars program was made possible by generous support from the Terrance W. Schwab Fund for Young Vocal Artists.

MENDELSSOHN AT 200: BISS AND FRIED
Concert in the Music Room
Sunday March 15, 2009 at 4:00pm  program notes & artists bios

Miriam Fried, violin; Jonathan Biss, piano; Marcy Rosen, cello

Brahms	Sonata No. 2 in A Major, Op. 100
Bartok	Sonata No. 2
Mendelssohn	Trio for Piano, Violin and Cello No. 1 in D minor, Op. 49

Heard in concert halls around the world, the renowned mother-son duo of Miriam Fried and Jonathan Biss, performed two sonatas at the heart of the repertoire. To celebrate the 200th anniversary of Felix Mendelssohn's birth, Marcy Rosen joined them for Mendelssohn's brilliant D minor trio.

MARCH 29  ARIEL STRING QUARTET II
2008-09 Ernst Stiefel String Quartet-in-Residence
Sunday, 4:00pm ~ Music Room  program notes & bio

Alexandra Kazovsky and Gershon Gerchikov, violins; Sergey Tarashchansky, viola and Amit Even-Tov, cello

Haydn	Quartet No. 66 in G Major, Op. 77, No. 1, Hob. III:81 (Lobkowitz)
Beethoven	Quartet No. 11 in F minor, Op. 95 (Serioso)
Brahms	Quartet in A minor, Op. 51 No. 2

Edward Arron

MENDELSSOHN AT 200: CARAMOOR VIRTUOSI
Concert in the Music Room
Saturday, April 4, 2009 at 8:00pm   program notes & artist bios 

Caramoor Virtuosi: Adam Neiman, piano; Jeewon Park, piano; Ayano Ninomiya, violin; Max Mandel, viola; Mark Holloway, viola; Edward Arron, cello; Leigh Mesh, bass

Mendelssohn	Song Without Words in E Major for Solo Piano, Opus 19, No. 1
	Jeewon Park, piano
Mendelssohn	Vocal Quartets
	William Ferguson, David Ossenfort, tenors; bass
	Adrian Rosas, bass-baritone; Matt Trevino,
Mendelssohn	Trio in c minor, Opus 66
	Adam Neiman, piano; Ayano Ninomiya, violin; Edward Arron, cello
Mendelssohn	Song Without Words in g minor for Solo Piano, Opus 53, No. 3
	Adam Neiman, piano
Mendelssohn	Song Without Words in D Major for Cello and Piano, Op. 109
	Edward Arron, cello; Jeewon Park, piano
Mendelssohn	Sextet in D Major for Piano, Violin, Two Violas, Cello and Bass, Op. 110
	Ayano Ninomiya, violin; Mark Holloway, Max Mandel, violas;
	Edward Arron, cello;  Leigh Mesh, bass; Jeewon Park, piano

Continuing Caramoor's celebration of the 200th anniversary of Mendelssohn's birth, the Caramoor Virtuosi present a delightfully mixed program accentuating the diversity and sheer brilliance of the composer's more intimate works: male vocal quartets, solo piano works, a piano trio, and the monumental sextet.

MENDELSSOHN AT 200: BRENTANO STRING QUARTET
Concert in the Music Room
Sunday, April 19, 2009 at 4:00pm   program notes & artist bios

Brentano String Quartet, with special guest Hsin-Yun Huang, viola

Mendelssohn	String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 13
Schumann	String Quartet No. 3 in A Major, Op. 41, No. 3
Mendelssohn	String Quintet No. 2 in B-flat Major, Op. 87

Renowned for fresh and profound interpretations and a Caramoor favorite, the Brentano String Quartet rounds out our Mendelssohn celebration with the young composer's tribute to Beethoven in his second string quartet and his exhilarating second string quintet with special guest violist Hsin-Yun Huang, both of which are set in relief by fellow-Romantic heavyweight Robert Schumann's third quartet.

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