Chamber Music by Candlelight

Sunday, November 22, 2009 at 7:30 PM

Free evening concerts performed in the beautiful, intimate, illuminated setting of Second Presbyterian Church by members of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.

Program

Concerto for Horn, Violin and Piano

Dame Ethel Smyth (1858-1944)

• Allegro moderato
• Elegy (In memoriam)
• Finale (Allegro)

Mary Bisson, horn; Jonathan Carney, violin; Lura Johnson, piano

Sonata No. 2 in D major, Op. 94A for Violin and Piano

Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)

• Moderato
• Scherzo (Presto)
• Andante
• Allegro con brio

Gregory Mulligan, violin; Lura Johnson, piano

INTERMISSION

String Quartet No. 2, the Edelman Quartet

Jonathan Leshnoff (b. 1973)

• Slow, kiddush
• Flowing
• Fast

Ivan Stefanovic and Gregory Mulligan, violins; Christian Colberg, viola; Dariusz Skoraczewski, cello

Quartet in A minor, Op. 13, No. 2

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)

• Adagio; Allegro vivace
• Adagio non lento
• Intermezzo: Allegretto con moto; Allegro di molto
• Presto; Adagio non lento

Madeline Adkins and Rebecca Nichols, violins; Christian Colberg, viola; Seth Low, cello

Bios

NOTES

Dame Mary Ethel Smyth was born into a military family in England and studied piano and theory as a child. As a young woman, Smyth studied composition in Leipzig with Herzogenberg and became a great devotee of Johannes Brahms. Her Concerto for Violin, Horn and Orchestra was first performed in 1927 and she later arranged it for violin, horn and piano.

Composers