Berg and Brahms for Strings
| 1. | Introduction | 00:00:50 |
| 2. | Berg: Quartet for Strings, Op. 3 | 00:24:56 |
| 3. | Brahms: Quintet in G major for Two Violins, Two Violas, and Cello, Op. 111 | 00:32:43 |
| 4. | Closing | 00:00:30 |
Both Alban Berg and Johannes Brahms hail from the Viennese school of classical composing and the work featured on this program showcase the strength and musicality that came out of that period. Brahms’ G major String Quintet, Op. 111 evokes the fresh mountain air and serene lakes that would have surrounded the composer as he wrote this work from his idyllic summer retreat in Upper Austria. While Brahms’ Quintet is one of the final he wrote, Alban Berg’s String Quartet No. 3 was composed during the early period of his career. In it, you can hear him begin to develop the hyper-romantic language he would become known for in works like his famous, “Lyric Suite.”
PROGRAM
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Alban Berg (1885–1935) |
Quartet for Strings, Op. 3 (1910) Amphion String Quartet (David Southorn, Katie Hyun, violin; Andy Lin, viola; Mihai Marica, cello) |
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Johannes Brahms (1833–1897) |
Quintet in G major for Two Violins, Two Violas, and Cello, Op. 111 (1890) Philip Setzer, Shmuel Ashkenasi, violin; Richard O'Neill, Arnaud Sussmann, viola; Paul Watkins, cello |
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Arnaud Sussmann
Paul Watkins
Winner of a 2009 Avery Fisher Career Grant, Arnaud Sussmann has recently appeared as soloist with the Vancouver Symphony and the New World Symphony. As a chamber musician, he has performed at the Tel Aviv Museum, London’s Wigmore Hall, the Dresden Music Festival, and the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC. He has also given concerts at the Moritzburg, Caramoor, Music@Menlo, La Jolla SummerFest, Mainly Mozart, Seattle Chamber Music, Chamber Music Northwest, and Moab Music festivals. An alum of CMS’s Bowers Program, Sussmann is Artistic Director of the Chamber Music Society of Palm Beach and Co-Director of Music@Menlo’s International Program, and teaches at Stony Brook University. In September 2022, he was named Founding Artistic Director of the Boscobel Chamber Music Festival. Mr. Sussmann plays a 1731 Stradivarius violin on loan from a private owner.
Paul Watkins enjoys a varied and distinguished career as soloist, chamber musician, and conductor. The cellist of the Emerson String Quartet from 2013 until its disbanding in 2023, he is also the Artistic Director of the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival, and in 2019 he was appointed Professor of Cello at the Yale School of Music. He has performed as concerto soloist with prestigious orchestras throughout the world. A dedicated chamber musician, he was a member of the Nash Ensemble from 1997 until 2013 and is a regular guest artist at CMS. Watkins has held the positions of Music Director of the English Chamber Orchestra and Principal Guest Conductor of the Ulster Orchestra. His extensive discography as a cellist includes more than 70 recordings, and his first recording as a conductor, of the Britten and Berg violin concertos with Daniel Hope, received a Grammy nomination.