Wednesday, June 17

7:30pm | Leo Baeck Institute | 15 West 16th Street | $35

This evening’s program features the Festival’s 2015 Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation artist, violist Vladimir Babeshko, in one of Joseph Joachim’s soaring Hebrew Melodies and in Kodaly’s Serenade for String Trio. Experience the New York Premiere of “Immutable Dreams” by celebrated Hungarian-Canadian composer Kati Agócs and the mighty string Sextet in B-flat Major by Dohnányi, as we honor/explore the legacy of Ernő Dohnányi and his efforts in the 1930-40s to protect Jewish friends from the Nazi regime in Germany and Hungary.

Works by Agócs, Dohnányi, Goldmark, Joachim, Kodaly. Performers include Vladimir Babeshko, Kayla Burggraf, Weiyin Chen, Michael Dahlberg, Amy Galluzzo, Danny Goldman, Paul Huang, Tessa Lark, Angela Lee, Lisa Lee, Derek Mosloff, Nicolas Namoradze, Alex Shiozaki.

Includes intermission wine reception.

FULL PROGRAM 

Hebrew Melodies Op. 9 (1855)………………………………..Joseph Joachim (1831-1907)
Sostenuto

Vladimir Babeshko, viola
Weiyin Chen, piano

Immutable Dreams (2007)………………………………………….Kati Agócs (b. 1975)
I Feel the Air of Other Planets
Microconcerto (in memoriam Gyorgy Ligeti)
Husks

Kayla Burggraf, flute
Danny Goldman, clarinet
Alex Shiozaki, violin
Michael Dahlberg, cello
Nicolas Namoradze, piano

Serenade Op. 12 (1919-20)……………………………………Zoltán Kodály (1882-1967)
Allegramente Sostenuto
ma non troppo
Lento ma non troppo
Vivo

Lisa Lee, violin
Paul Huang, violin
Vladimir Babeshko, viola

INTERMISSION

Mondnacht am See (A Night on the Lake in Moonlight)…………….Karl Goldmark (1830-1915)
from Georginen Op. 52 (1913)
Nicolas Namoradze, piano

String Sextet in B-flat major (1893/rev.1896)………………….Ernő Dohnányi (1877-1960)
Allegro ma tranquillo
Scherzo: Allegro vivace
Adagio quasi andante
Finale: Animato

Tessa Lark, violin
Amy Galluzzo, violin
Vladimir Babeshko, viola
Derek Mosloff, viola
Angela Lee, cello
Michael Dahlberg, cello