Concert Program V: Alla Zingarese

Fri., August 5, 8:00 p.m. | Stent Family Hall
Sat., August 6, 8:00 p.m. | The Center for Performing Arts at Menlo-Atherton

A lifelong fascination with popular music of all kinds—especially the Gypsy folk music that Hungarian refugees brought to Germany in the 1840s—resulted in some of Brahms’s most captivating works. This program offers Brahms’s lusty Hungarian Dances alongside other examples of composers drawing from Eastern European folk idioms.

HAYDN: Rondo all’Ongarese (Gypsy Rondo) from Piano Trio in G Major, Hob. XV: 25 (1795)
SCHULENBURG: Puszta-Märchen (Gypsy Romance and Czardas) 
VALDEZ: Serenade du Tzigane (Gypsy Serenade) 
ANONYMOUS: The Canary
BRAHMS: Selections from Hungarian Dances, WoO 1, Books 1 and 2 (1868–1880)
DVOŘÁK: Selections from Slavonic Dances, op. 46 (1878)
KREISLER: La gitana (1919)
WIENIAWSKI: Mazurka, op. 19, no. 2 (1860)
RAVEL: Tzigane (1922–1924)
BRAHMS: Piano Trio in C Major, op. 87 (1880–1882)

Artists
Jon Kimura Parker, Wu Han, pianos; Elmar Oliveira, violin; Paul Neubauer, viola;David Finckel, cello