Schedule Of Events

6:00 PM : Dinner on the Terrace - Concert in the Mansion 

7:30 PM : Concert in the Mansion

Maurice Ravel (1875 -1937)
Celebrating the Year of Ravel
Sonata for Violin and Piano (1923 to 1927)
inspired by forms of American  jazz and blues 16’
2025 is being celebrated as Maurice Ravel’s 150th birthday year by musicians and music institutions worldwide. This commemoration acknowledges the sesquicentennial of his birth in 1875 and celebrates his significant contributions to 20th-century music.

Bohuslav Martinů (1890-1959)

Three Madrigals H 313 (1947) 16’
Poco Allegro. Poco Andante. Allegro Vivo.
Considered a violin prodigy in his Bohemian hometown, Martinů moved to Paris in 1923 to study composition. His symphonic career began when he emigrated to the United States in 1941, fleeing the German invasion of France. Three Madrigals were inspired by a performance of Mozart Duos by his friends, the brother-sister duo Joseph and Lilian Fuchs, to whom he dedicated the Madrigals.

Franz Lizst (1811-1886)

Mephisto Waltz N 1, S. 514 (1856-1861)
“Der Tanz in der Dorfschenke” (The Dance in the Village Inn)
A visionary piano superstar, Lizst composed several top-class virtuoso pieces for piano, including the four Mephisto Waltzes. No. 1 is the most famous of the four and remains one of the most frequently performed. The literary template for the program comes from the verse epic “Faust. Ein Gedicht” by Nikolaus Lenau. In the “Dance” episode, Faust and Mephisto enter a village tavern. Mephisto grabs a musician’s violin, tunes the instrument and plays a wild dance on it – while Faust disappears into the forest with a harlot. Liszt transfers this scene to piano in rich detail: violin’s voices as empty fifths, the infernal dance and finally the song of a nightingale in the forest.

Pablo de Sarasate (1844 – 1908)
Carmen Fantasy, Op. 25 12’
Violinist-composer Pablo de Sarasate gave the premiere of his hugely demanding Carmen Fantasy in Paris in 1883 – the dramatic hit tunes of Bizet’s Carmen, a tragic tale of love and jealousy.

Yury Revich (1991 )
“Choriner Wald” (Forest of Chorin) (2023) 6’
Commissioned by Choriner Sommer Festival and Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Yury arranged the piece for the piano quartet for this US premiere.

Johannes Brahms (1833 – 1897)
Piano Quartet No.1 in G minor, Op.25 (1861)
IV. Rondo alla Zingarese: Presto 12’
In 1862, the 29-year-old composer and pianist Johannes Brahms settled in Vienna, the capital of the western musical world. He introduced himself to that city’s musical elite with his Piano Quartet in g minor, the first of his eventual three. Members of the Hellmesberger Quartet, one of Vienna’s leading chamber ensembles, read the work with the composer at the piano; at its conclusion, the violinist Joseph Hellmesberger leapt from his chair, enthusiastically proclaiming, “This is the heir of Beethoven!” Quartet will be performed in its entirety at Sunday’s concert.