MAKING WAVES

Pre-Concert Talk: 6:45 pm with composer Zosha Di Castri in the Bella Concert Hall

A recently discovered work by a teenaged Mozart may be “ganz kleine” (very little) but is in no way insubstantial. Contours of Absence is an exhilarating string octet composed by a “riotously inventive” (New Yorker) Canadian sound artist. Polish composer Lutoslawski’s Variations on a Theme by Paganini is part humorous parody and part spectacular display of virtuosity worthy of a nightclub audience. Finally, Mendelssohn’s Piano Trio is one of his most popular works: fluid, balanced, and elegantly constructed, and a perfect illustration of why Schumann called Mendelssohn “the Mozart of the 19th century.”

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Ganz Kleine Nachtmusik K. 648 

Zosha Di Castri The Contours of Absence

Witold Lutoslawski Variations on a Theme by Paganini

Felix Mendelssohn Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op.49