American Philosophical Society

Ricardo Morales, clarinet; Roberto Díaz, viola; Efe Baltacıgil, cello; Natalie Zhu, piano

Beethoven: Clarinet Trio in B-flat Major, Op. 11
Husa: Evocations of Slovakia
Bruch: Eight Pieces, Op. 83 [Sel.]
Brahms: Clarinet Trio in A Minor, Op. 114

Running time: 1 hour and 45 minutes (including intermission) 

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Kim Kashkashian, viola and Robert Levin, piano

Transcriptions
Beethoven: Seven Variations on aria from Mozart’s Magic Flute, WoO 46
Debussy: Fêtes Galantes
Britten: Lachrymae, Op. 48
Ravel: Cinq Mélodies Populaires Grecques
Beethoven: Twelve Variations on aria from Mozart’s Magic Flute, Op. 66
Stravinsky: Suite Italienne

Running time: 1 hour and 35 minutes (including intermission) 

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Lea Desandre, mezzo and Thomas Dunford, lute

Lettera amorosa
Monteverdi: "Sí dolce è’l tormento"
Frescobaldi: "Se l'aura spira" from Primo libro d'arie musicali per cantarsi
Kapsberger: Toccata No. 6
Dalza: "Calata ala Spagnola"
Handel: "Lascia la spina" from Il trionfo del Tempo e della Verità
Kapsberger: Toccata No. 5
Monteverdi: "Se i languidi miei sguardi (lettera amorosa)" from The Seventh Book of Madrigals
Kapsberger: "Figlio dormi"
Handel: "Frondi tenere e belle ... Ombra mai fù" from Serse
Kapsberger: Toccata No. 1
Merula: "Canzonetta spirituale sopra alla nanna"
Kapsberger: Toccata No. 3
Merula: "Folle è ben che si crede"
Monteverdi: "Quel sguardo sdegnosetto"

Running time: 1 hour and 40 minutes (including intermission) 

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Anthony Heald, actor and David Leisner, guitar

Such stuff as dreams are made on...
Program includes readings from Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets, interspersed with music by Dowland, Bach, Schubert, Villa-Lobos, Britten, and Leisner.

Running time: 1 hour (There will not be an intermission.) 

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Marina Piccinini, flute; Hye-Jin Kim, violin; Peter Stumpf, cello; Cynthia Raim, piano

Mozart: Piano Trio in G Major, K. 496
Schubert: Variations on Trockne Blumen, D. 802
Haydn: Trio in C Major, Hob. IV:1
Villa-Lobos: Jet Whistle
Weber: Flute Trio in G Minor, Op. 63

Running time: 1 hour and 45 minutes (including intermission) 

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Musicians from Marlboro I

Maria Ioudenitch & Claire Bourg, violin; Beth Guterman Chu & Hayang Park, viola; Christoph Richter, cello

Haydn: Quartet in G Major, Op. 77, No. 1
Benjamin: Viola, Viola
Walker: String Quartet No. 1 [excerpt]: Slow Dance (original version of Lyric for Strings)
Mendelssohn: Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 44, No. 3

Running time: 1 hour and 40 minutes (including intermission) 

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Brooklyn Rider

The Sandbox of Invention
Haydn: String Quartet in C Major, Op. 20, No. 2, Hob.III:32, "Sun”
Works by Assad, Kahane, and Sorey from the Brooklyn Rider Almanac, Book II [Philadelphia Premiere, PCMS Co-Commission]
Gubaidulina: Reflections on the Theme B-A-C-H
Schumann: String Quartet in A Minor, Op 41, No. 1

Running time: 1 hour and 40 minutes (including intermission) 

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Formosa Quartet w/ Hsin-Yun Huang, viola and Peter Wiley, cello

Haydn: Quartet in D Minor, Op. 76, No. 2, Fifths
Formosa Quartet Set
Dvořák: String Sextet in A Major, Op. 48

Running time: 1 hour and 40 minutes (including intermission) 

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Kuwento Mizik w/ Jean Bernard Cerin, baritone and Veena Kulkarni-Rankin, piano

Running time: 1 hour and 30 minutes (including intermission) 

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Musicians from Marlboro II

Patrick Bessenbacher, tenor; Mary Lynch VanderKolk, oboe; Itamar Zorman, violin; Haesue Lee, viola; Brannon Cho, cello; Filippo Gorini, piano

Vaughan Williams: Blake Songs
Grime: Oboe Quartet
Brahms: Piano Quartet in A Major, Op. 26

Running time: 1 hour and 35 minutes (including intermission) 

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Joseph Lin, violin and Helen Huang, piano

Haydn: Violin Sonata No. 7 in F Major
Beethoven: Violin Sonata in A Minor, Op. 23
Sheng: The Stream Flows (Solo Violin)
Schubert: Fantasy in C Major, D. 934

Running time: 1 hour and 35 minutes (including intermission) 

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Orion Quartet

Schubert: Quartet in G Major, D. 887
Beethoven: Quartet in B-flat Major, Op. 130 w/ Grosse Fuge, Op. 133

Running time: 2 hours and 5 minutes (including intermission) 

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Aizuri Quartet; Kim Kashkashian, viola; Marcy Rosen, cello

Esmail: Fantasie (Bihag) from Ragamala
Fe. Mendelssohn: Capriccio from Quartet, Op. 81
Ran: Lyre of Orpheus
Strauss: Sextet from Capriccio, Op. 85
C. Schumann: Die stille Lotosblume from Sechs Lieder, Op. 13, No. 6
Fa. Mendelssohn: Quartet in E-flat Major

Running time: 1 hour and 35 minutes (including intermission) 

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Demarre McGill, flute; Anthony McGill, clarinet; Charles Overton, harp; Catalyst Quartet

Saint-Saëns: Fantaisie for Flute and Harp, Op. 124
Scott: Sextet  World Premiere/PCMS Co-Commission
Nabors: 7 Dances  Philadelphia Premiere
Ravel: Introduction et Allegro

Running time: 1 hour and 30 minutes (including intermission) 

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Alicia Hall Moran, mezzo; Allison Loggins-Hull, flute; Gabriela Martinez, piano

Diametrically Composed
Program includes works by Loggins-Hull, Moran, Prestini, Snider, and Meyer

Running time: 1 hour and 35 minutes (including intermission) 

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