LEONIDAS KAVAKOS, violin

and

YUJA WANG, piano

November 19, 2014

Johannes Brahms Sonata No. 2 for Piano and Violin in (1833-1897) A major, Op. 100 Allegro amabile Andante tranquillo Allegretto grazioso (quasi Andante)

Robert Schumann Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano in (1810-1856) D minor, Op. 121 Ziemlich langsam - Lebhaft Sehr lebhaft Leise, einfach Bewegt

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Maurice Ravel Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Piano (Posthume) (1875-1937)

Ottorino Respighi Sonata for Violin and Piano in B minor, P. 110 (1879-1936) Moderato Andante espressivo Passacaglia: Allegro moderato ma energico

Gates Concert Hall Newman Center for the Performing Arts

University of Denver

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LEONIDAS KAVAKOS, violin Leonidas Kavakos, Gramophone’s Artist of the Year 2014, is recognized across the world as a violinist and artist of rare quality, known at the highest level for his virtuosity, superb musicianship, and the integrity of his playing. He makes his Friends of Chamber Music debut tonight.

Kavakos gained international attention in his teens, when he won the Sibelius Competition in 1985 and, three years later, the Paganini and Naumburg competitions. He has since developed close relationships with the world’s major orchestras and conductors, such as the Berliner Philharmoniker with Simon Rattle, Royal Concertgebouw with Mariss Jansons, London Symphony Orchestra with Valery Gergiev, and Gewandhausorchester Leipzig with Riccardo Chailly. In the U.S. he performs regularly with the New York Philharmonic, Boston and Chicago Symphony Orchestras, Philadelphia Orchestra, and Los Angeles Philharmonic.

Kavakos has now established a strong profile as a conductor and has worked with the symphony orchestras of Boston, Atlanta, and St. Louis, DSO-Berlin, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Vienna Symphony, Budapest Festival, Finnish Radio Symphony, and Rotterdam Philharmonic, among others. In the 2014-15 season he returns as conductor to the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Royal Stockholm Philharmonic.

As a chamber musician and recitalist, Kavakos appears often at the Verbier, Montreux-Vevey, Bad Kissingen, Edinburgh, and Salzburg Festivals. For 15 years he also curated a chamber music cycle at the Athens Megaron Concert Hall in his native Greece.

Kavakos is an exclusive Decca recording artist and his first release on the label, Beethoven Violin Sonatas with Enrico Pace, was nominated for a 2014 GRAMMY© and garnered him the 2013 ECHO Klassik Instrumentalist of the Year award. The duo has presented the complete cycle at Carnegie Hall, the Salzburg Festival, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, in Hong Kong and Shanghai, and at the Beethovenfest Bonn. His second disc with Decca (October 2013) featured the Brahms Violin Concerto recorded with the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig and Riccardo Chailly. His most recent recording, Brahms: The Violin Sonatas with Yuja Wang, was released in spring 2014. This season Kavakos and Wang will perform these sonatas on tour throughout North America and Europe.

Mr. Kavakos records exclusively for Decca.

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YUJA WANG, piano

Yuja Wang returns to Friends of Chamber Music after her stunning debut on our Piano Series in October 2011. Wang is widely recognized as one of the most important artists of her generation. She has performed with many of the world’s prestigious orchestras including those of Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Washington, and abroad with the Berlin Staatskapelle, China Philharmonic, Filarmonica della Scala, Israel Philharmonic, London Symphony, Orchestre de Paris, Orquesta Nacional de España, Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra, the NHK Symphony in Tokyo, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, and Santa Cecilia, among others. Conductors with whom she has collaborated include Abbado, Barenboim, Dudamel, Dutoit, Gatti, Gergiev, Franck, Inkinen, Maazel, Mehta, Masur, Pappano, Salonen, Temirkanov, and Tilson Thomas. Yuja regularly gives recitals throughout Asia, Europe, and North America.

This season Yuja is artist-in-residence with Zurich’s Tonhalle Orchestra, appearing for two weeks with Lionel

Bringuier and a final week with Dudamel. She will also be featured in a two-week residency with the Hong Kong Philharmonic. Yuja performs Prokofiev’s Concerto No. 2 with both the Berlin and Munich Philharmonics, and returns to the Concertgebouw to work with Mariss Jansons. In the U.S. she is a featured soloist on the London Symphony Orchestra tour with Michael Tilson Thomas.

An exclusive recording artist for Deutsche Grammophon, Yuja’s catalogue includes three sonata recordings, a concerto recording with Abbado and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, and a disc of Prokofiev and Rachmaninoff with Dudamel and the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra.

Yuja studied at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing with Ling Yuan and Zhou Guangren, the Mount Royal Conservatory in Calgary, and the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia with Gary Graffman. In 2010 she received the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant.

Ms. Wang records exclusively for Deutsche Grammophon.

PROGRAMNOTES

Program notes © Elizabeth Bergman

Brahms: Sonata No. 2 for Piano and Violin in A major, Op. 100

In 1853, composer Robert Schumann introduced a promising young talent to

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readers of the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, the leading musical journal of the day. “Sooner or later,” Schumann imagined, “someone would and must appear, fated to give us the ideal expression of the times, one who would not gain his mastery by gradual stages, but rather would spring fully armed like Minerva from the head of Jove.” He announced that he had discovered Beethoven’s heir. “His name is Johannes Brahms, from Hamburg,” Schumann declared. “He carries all the marks of one who has received a call” and would take up the symphonic mantle from Beethoven.

At the time, Brahms (1833–1897) was just five years past his solo debut as a pianist, which he made in 1858 playing works by Bach and Beethoven. His earliest extant compositions date from 1851, only two years before Schumann’s fateful pronouncement. Likely he destroyed many of his first compositions. Subjecting himself to intense self-criticism, he mercilessly censored his own music throughout his life. And he was careful not to take on too much too soon. Brahms started in the genres of the piano sonata and art song, saving the most exalted genres of the string quartet and symphony for much later in life.

By the time he had finished the second violin sonata in 1886, however, Brahms was a fully mature composer, sure of his gifts and devoted at the time to writing chamber music. He composed some dozen major chamber works within a decade. But the A major sonata is unusual in having only three movements. The single middle movement combines elements of the traditional Andante and Scherzo: simple, melodic sections

alternate with more spirited music, including a folksy passage of pizzicato. The graceful Andante melody is actually modeled (intentionally) on a theme from Grieg’s Violin Sonata No. 2 in G major. The finale features another soulful melody, this one entirely original, and the memorable opening theme of the first movement returns at the very last. Ultimately, although Brahms may be frequently celebrated for writing dense, intricate counterpoint, this violin sonata reveals just how gorgeously tuneful his music can be.

Last performed on our series: October 17, 2001 (Hilary Hahn, violin, and Natalie Zhu, piano). Schumann: Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano in D minor, Op. 121

In 1830, when the 20 year-old Robert Schumann (1810–1856) decided that he would pursue a career as a pianist, he began to compose. (At the time, virtuosi were expected to write music for their own performances.) His plans for a concert career, however, were thwarted by a weak ring finger, so he devoted himself to composition. Eventually his oeuvre would include more than 200 songs, four symphonies, and even an opera. He was also a prolific and inventive writer of music criticism.

As he finished writing his landmark article on Brahms in the fall of 1853, Schumann and his wife Clara, herself an eminently gifted pianist, hosted the leading violinist of the day, Joseph Joachim, at their home. Together Clara and Joachim played through Schumann’s D-minor violin

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sonata (1851) along with some piano works by the young Brahms, with the composer himself at the piano. It must have been an extraordinary evening—one of many the esteemed musicians and composers enjoyed together that fall.

The D-minor sonata is nearly symphonic in form and content, lasting a full half-hour. The opening, with grand double-stopped chords, is strikingly dramatic. The second movement is marked Sehr lebhaft, very lively, and the third movement features a set of variations on a chorale tune. Throughout, the partnership between violinist and pianist is especially intricate, with extended passages in tight doubling (especially in the second movement) and moments of almost concerto-like interplay, as in the dramatic finale.

Tonight marks the first performance of this work on our series.

Ravel: Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Piano (Posthume)

Maurice Ravel (1875–1937) descended from a distinguished line of French composers. He was a student of Gabriel Fauré, himself a pupil of Camille Saint-Saëns. An accomplished pianist who composed stunningly virtuosic works for his own instrument, Ravel is also known for his extraordinary orchestration of music by other composers (most famously Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition). Ravel gained some early renown working with Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, but the two had a falling out in 1920 when the ballet impresario commissioned—then rejected—one of Ravel’s scores.

With the death of Debussy (whom Ravel knew and respected, though the two were never close friends), Ravel assumed the position of the leading composer in France. As a founding member of the Société musicale indépendante (created with his former teacher Fauré), Ravel actively promoted contemporary music, and he supported the best of the next generation of French composers, collectively known as Les Six, including Eric Satie. In 1928, Ravel toured the United States to great acclaim, meeting George Gershwin and absorbing jazz in Harlem and New Orleans. His second violin sonata (1927) reflects his experiences in the United States and bears the influence of the blues.

The first violin sonata was published long after Ravel’s death in 1937, although it was written in 1897 while the composer was still a student, studying privately and struggling to establish himself professionally. There are elements of César Franck’s influence but also hints in the single movement (he had imagined others that were never realized) of the kind of lush and colorful melodies as well as the rhythmic kick that would come to define Ravel’s own unique style. Respighi: Sonata for Violin and Piano in B minor

A talented violinist, violist, and pianist, Ottorino Respighi (1879–1936) moved to St. Petersburg at the age of 20 to play in the Imperial Theater Orchestra. There he also studied with the composer and master orchestrator Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. He quietly built his reputation as a composer as well as a musicologist, taking an interest in early Italian music,

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especially by Monteverdi and Vivaldi. In 1913 he was appointed a professor of composition in Rome, but he truly made a name for himself in 1917 with what would inaugurate a trilogy of picturesque symphonic tone poems depicting Rome. Fountains of Rome (1916) showcased his prodigious skills as an orchestrator. It was followed by Pines of Rome (1924) and Roman Festivals (1929). Though he devoted most of his musical attention to symphonies and opera, he produced notable chamber works, including a handful of string quartets, a lone piano sonata, and two violin sonatas.

The Sonata in B minor was completed soon after Fountains of Rome at the height of Respighi’s first flush of fame.

At the time he was also working on a commission for the Ballets Russes to arrange some music by Rossini for a new ballet, La boutique fantasque (1919). But the violin sonata is more stylistically akin to Schumann and Brahms, with its dark, tempestuous first movement and brooding Andante. The third and final movement is directly inspired by the last movement of Brahms’s Fourth Symphony. Both take the form of a passacaglia, a series of variations above a repeated harmonic pattern. That rather strict form does not constrain the passionate outbursts in the violin and piano.

Tonight marks the first performance of this work on our series.

Colorado Gives Day is right around the corner! On December 9, thousands of Coloradans will support their favorite Colorado charities and nonprofits. If you would like to preschedule a donation to Friends of Chamber Music, visit www.ColoradoGives.org/FCM. As always, we thank you for your support, helping to keep chamber music alive in our community!   

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On December 3rd, 10 – 11:30 a.m., the Dover Quartet will present a master class at Denver School of the Arts, 7111 Montview Blvd., Denver, 80220. Young musicians from the El Sistema program will be joining DSA students for the class, which is free and open to the public. We hope you will join us to see our education program at work!

Single tickets are still available for the Dover Quartet's recital on our Chamber Series on December 3rd at 7:30 pm. Tickets are $35 each/$10 for students 25 and under. Visit www.friendsofchambermusic.com or contact the Newman Center Box Office, 303-871-7720, www.newmantix.com.

Master Class with the Dover Quartet

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“When the Pacifica Quartet opened its recent performance of the cycle of Beethoven String Quartets, I sat comfortably in the second row without

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Join us at Curious Theatre Company at 6:00 p.m. on Monday, January 19, 2015, for an unforgettable evening with pianist Jeremy Denk as he talks about the world and works of American composer, Charles Ives. One of the foremost interpreters of Ives’ piano music, Denk will speak about the composer and his influences.

Denk will be joined by Christy Montour-Larson, director of Curious Theatre Company’s regional premiere of Charles Ives Take Me Home. In this inspiring new work, modernist composer Charles Ives officiates a generational scrimmage between a virtuoso violinist and his basketball coach daughter. It’s a difficult father/daughter relationship in which dissonant passions create a fugue of disappointments and missed chances.

Event TicketsCharles Ives: A Conversation with Jeremy Denk. January 19, 2015, 6–7:30 p.m. Curious Theatre Company1080 Acoma St., Denver, 80204.$15 per ticket, on sale now. A limited number of seats available for this event so order today!

Theater TicketsCharles Ives Take Me Home Curious Theatre, Jan 8 – Feb 14, 2015Curious Theatre Company is offering FCM subscribers $39 A Seating tickets (regularly priced at $44) and $32 B Seating tickets (regularly priced at $37) valid to any Charles Ives, Take Me Home performance January 15 - 31, 2015* when you purchase tickets by January 1, 2015. Redeem this exclusive offer by using the code "CHAMBER" (all caps) when purchasing tickets at curioustheatre.org.

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Tickets to both events are only available through Curious Theatre’s Box Office:www.curioustheatre.org /303.623.0524

Our thanks to Onofrio Piano for donating a piano for this event.

Don't miss our upcoming Piano Series Recitals$35 each/$10 students 25 and under

Tickets available through our website, www.friendsofchambermusic.com, or contact the Newman Center Box Office, 303-871-7720, www.newmantix.com

Jeremy DenkJanuary 21, 20157:30 p.m.

Jonathan BissMay 6, 2015

7:30 p.m.

Charles Ives: A Conversation with Jeremy Denk

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Building New Audiencesthrough Educational Outreach

Friends of Chamber Music's education  programs are an essential part of our mission.  FCM recently received this letter from Luke Wachter, the music teacher at Kunsmiller Creative Arts Academy, a K-12 public magnet school serving students in southwest Denver.

Dear Friends of Chamber Music, As anyone who has run a school music program can tell you, it is impossible for even a masterful teacher to be successful on their own. Support from parents, schools, co-teachers, and outside organizations bringing musical opportunities to students are all vital parts of comprehensive 21st-century music education. The latter two things can be particularly difficult for inner-city schools without a lot of financial resources. However, due to the work being done by groups like the Friends of Chamber Music, it has been possible for me to expose my students at Kunsmiller Creative Arts Academy in Denver Public Schools to an expanding landscape of musical experiences and opportunities.

I try to ensure that my students are engaged not in just what I think is valuable, but also in what is actually happening in the musical community of the city. This means exposing them to working artists in the world of chamber music, and more importantly giving them the chance to work directly in making music with those professionals.

Bridging the achievement gap in the arts is a difficult prospect, but I know the support of organizations such as FCM have a real impact on student growth and achievement. After our Spring 2014 Young Composers Project, which FCM helped make possible, I had two high school students come to the realization that not only did they want careers in music, but that it was something that was actually possible for them to do in a very real way. This is how new audiences are built, new artists' voices found, and lives changed.

Luke WachterKunsmiller Creative Arts Academy

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S P E C I A L T H A N K S

CHAMBER SERIESDOVER QUARTETWEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 7:30 PM

CALDER QUARTETWEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 7:30 PM

LES VIOLONS DU ROY WITH MARC-ANDRÉ HAMELINTHURSDAY, MARCH 19, 7:30 PM

TRIO CON BRIO COPENHAGENWEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 7:30 PM

PIANO SERIESJEREMY DENKWEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 7:30 PM

JONATHAN BISSWEDNESDAY, May 6, 7:30 PM

BOARD OF DIRECTORS Lisa Bain, PresidentAlix Corboy, Vice PresidentWalter Torres, SecretaryAllan Rosenbaum, Treasurer

PROJECT ADMINISTRATORDesiree Parrott-Alcorn

BOARD MEMBERSPatsy AronsteinKate BerminghamJulanna GilbertJohn Lebsack Rosemarie Murane Kathy Newman

Mary ParkRichard Replin Myra Rich Suzanne Ryan Chet Stern Sam Wagonfeld

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SPECIAL EVENTSDOVER QUARTET MASTER CLASSDECEMBER 3, 2015, 10 - 11:30 AMDenver School of the Arts

JEREMY DENK/CURIOUS THEATRE EVENTJANUARY 19, 2015, 6:00 PM

CALDER QUARTET MASTER CLASSFEBRUARY 26, 2015, 9 - 10:30 AMDenver School of the Arts

YO-YO MA, SOLO RECITALAPRIL 29, 2015, 7:30 PM