Freimann: Amy Beach – Flute and String Quartet

PRELUDE

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BRIEF PROGRAM NOTES

The Brotherhood Mutual Insurance Company Freimann Series offers audiences chamber music classics up close and personal. Experience highly intimate music-making at its best. This series programed by the Philharmonic musicians will showcase female composers and include works from Louise Farrenc, Fanny Mendelssohn, Clara Schumann and Amy Beach.
 

PROGRAM

BRUCH     Eight Pieces for Clarinet, Viola and Piano, Op. 83
                       Andante
                       Allegro con moto
                       Andante con moto
                       Allegro agitato
                       Rumanian Folk Melody: Andante
                       Nocturne: Andante con moto
                       Allegro vivace, ma non troppo
                      Moderato
                           Campbell MacDonald, clarinet
                           Derek Reeves, viola
                           Alexander Klepach, piano

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BEACH     Theme and Variations for Flute and String Quartet, Op. 80
                      Theme: Lento di molto, sempre espressivo
                      Variation I - L'istesso tempo
                      Variation II - Allegro giusto
                      Variation III - Andantino con morbidezza
                      Variation IV - Presto leggiero
                      Variation V - Largo di molto, con grand' espressione
                      Variation VI - Allegro giocoso
                            Luke Fitzpatrick, flute
                            Freimann Quartet, quartet