BAE NEWS

 

BAE announces 2010-2011 season

We open our 2010 - 2011 in November with a powerful program that includes Schubert’s E flat Trio. Robert Schumann raved about the work, writing “Some years ago this Trio by Schubert passed across the face of the musical world like some angry comet in the sky. It was his hundredth opus, and shortly afterward, in November 1828, he died.” This program opens with the miraculous and perfect Ravel Piano Trio, written in 1914.

In January the BAE continues its survey of Schubert’s String Quartets with an appearance by Bayla Keyes in the profoundly touching “Rosamunde” Quartet in A minor. The first of Schubert’s mature quartets, it is paired with Dvorak’s final Quartet in A flat, Opus 105.

In February the incomparable Thomas Martin joins us in a performance of Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet in A Major. The program also includes the masterful Quartet No. 2 in A minor of Brahms.

In March, we return to our survey of Beethoven’s String Trios with the Serenade in D Major, Opus 8, and cellist Wendy Warner returns for another sparkling Boccherini Quintet. We also perform celebrated composer Judith Weir’s String Quartet. A 13-minute lyrical piece, this work is based on her songs in the style of medieval Romances and a folk ballad from Banffshire, Scotland. The program concludes with Schubert’s gorgeous but rarely played String Quartet in B flat, D 112.

The last program speaks for itself: the imperishable Brahms B Major Trio, two scintillating tangos by Scott Wheeler and Astor Piazzolla, and then Schumann’s impassioned Piano Quintet.

 

BAE continues itsfour-year celebration of the quartets of Schubert

This season we continue our survey of Schubert's quartets with the "Rosamunde" quartet in A minor in February and the B-flat Quartet in March.