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Welcome to Our 2016/17 PCMS Season

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It’s all here! The world’s finest chamber groups. Master pianists. Exciting string players. Acclaimed singers. Fantastic guest artists. Beloved works from the heart of the repertoire, and compelling pieces that are almost never heard. New music that speaks to the times in which we live, and great performances of Baroque repertoire.

And… a PCMS-curated journey of concerts, lectures and panel discussions— supported by The Pew Center for Arts and Heritage, and involving a PCMS partnership with pianist Jonathan Biss—exploring late period style, and the fascinating transitions and revelations that creative artists, and all of us, experience with wisdom, the passing of time, and a coming to grips with one’s mortality.

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CITY FLEX SERIES Special & 16|17 Subscription Series Special Events • The Crossing Collaborative • Curtis Chamber Orchestra Series SAVE UP TO 25% / PRIORITY SEATING / UNMATCHED FLEXIBILITY w/ & Roberto Díaz • ECCO KIMMEL CENTER MASTER DONALD & DOROTHY KARDON PIANO RECITAL SERIES • Gamut Bach Ensemble ARTISTS SERIES CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES • Mozarteum Orchestra • Lydia Artymiw, Charles Abramovic, World-class pianists, string • • Danish Quartet Cynthia Raim, Natalie Zhu players, singers and more take • Dover Quartet w/ Edgar Meyer w/ Christopher Deviney & Don Liuzzi center stage in this exciting series Woodwind Artists co-presented with the Kimmel • Emerson Quartet • • Julietta Curenton, Karen Slack & Lura Johnson Center for the Performing Arts. • Escher Quartet w/ Samuel Rhodes • Rudolf Buchbinder • Demarre McGill, Anthony McGill, All seven concerts take place in • • Jeremy Denk & Michael McHale the Kimmel Center’s intimate • Juilliard Quartet • Ingrid Fliter Perelman Theater. • Marina Piccinini & Beijing Guitar Duo • Musicians from Marlboro II & III • Richard Goode • Orion Quartet • Judith Serkin & Friends • Daniil Trifonov MUSICAL FUND • Christian Zacharias Recitals at the American Philosophical Society SOCIETY SERIES COMCAST CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES • Paul Appleby & Ken Noda Presented in collaboration with the Musical Fund Society (MFS), • VOCAL RECITAL SERIES • Jennifer Johnson Cano, Nathan Hughes, the oldest continuing musical • Catherine Cho, Hsin-Yun Huang, • Paul Appleby & Ken Noda Rafael Figueroa, & Ken Noda organization in the United States, Marcy Rosen & Ieva Jokubaviciute • Jennifer Johnson Cano, Nathan Hughes, • Colin Carr & Thomas Sauer this series features five MFS • Rafael Figueroa, & Ken Noda • Ayane Kozasa & Amy Yang Career Advancement Award • Johannes Quartet • Bernarda Fink & Anthony Spiri • Ilya Poletaev winners, including 2015 recipient w/ & Marcy Rosen • Magdalena Kožená & Malcolm Martineau • Anna Polonsky & Orion Weiss Ayane Kozasa. • London Haydn Quartet w/ Eric Hoeprich • Sandrine Piau & Susan Manoff • Peter Stumpf • Lysander Trio w/ Charles Neidich • Ben Wager & Jeffrey Miller • Ben Wager & Jeffrey Miller SUNDAY SERIES • • Peter Wiley & Anna Polonsky The Sunday Series features a wide • Musicians from Marlboro I JOSEPH & MARIE FIELD STRING variety of chamber ensembles, • Quatuor Ebène RECITAL SERIES LAURIE WAGMAN CENTURY SERIES, as well as string, wind and vocal • Takács Quartet performances. All concerts in this • & Christian Tetzlaff IN MEMORY OF IRVIN J. BOROWSKY series begin at 3 pm. • Augustin Hadelich & Pablo Villegas • Colin Carr & Thomas Sauer DEPARTURE & DISCOVERY SERIES • Jennifer Koh & Shai Wosner • Julietta Curenton, Karen Slack & Lura Johnson BUILD YOUR OWN SERIES • See pages 4–5 for more details • Jean-Guihen Queyras & Alexander Melnikov • ECCO New for 2016-17. • Peter Stumpf • Lysander Trio w/ Charles Neidich Create a custom subscription of any five or more • Peter Wiley & Anna Polonsky concerts. Enjoy maximum flexibility and seating before single tickets go on sale. Departure & Discovery: Public Panel Discussion Thursday, February 16 • 5pm New Directions at the An interdisciplinary panel discussion featuring CHRISTOPH WOLFF musical-thought leaders, moderated by ALLAN KOZINN Apex of Creativity WRTI’s Gregg Whiteside. LEWIS LAPHAM DR. DANIEL GOTTLIEB

Over the past five centuries, composers as early as in their 30’s or as late as in their 80’s have found new forms of expression in the final stages of life. Still more interesting, the changes are Farewell not consistent from composer to composer: some became • more concise, others more expansive. Some composers became Thursday, February 16 8pm fixated on death, others revealed a child-like innocence. Some Bach: Art of the Fugue, BWV 1080 [Sel.] BRENTANO QUARTET wrote their most adventurous music, while others turned back Kurtág: Játékok, Volume VII, for Piano [Sel.] JONATHAN BISS, piano in pursuit of greater clarity and economy. Britten: in C Major, Op. 36 Beethoven: Piano Sonata in C Minor, Op. 111 It is this sense of change—of new directions at the peak of creative and life maturity—that is the genesis for a special project featuring three Perelman Theater concerts, a public panel discussion, a new Amazon Kindle Single by Jonathan Biss, Waywardness and a podcast series by WWFM’s David Osenberg. Monday, March 6 • 8pm

To learn more about this project, visit Schumann: Gesänge der Frühe, Op. 133 BRENTANO QUARTET pcmsconcerts.org/discovery Gesualdo: Selected Madrigals HSIN-YUN HUANG, viola Brahms: Klavierstücke, Op. 118 JONATHAN BISS, piano Mozart: String Quintet in E-flat Major, K. 614

The Voice of a Visionary Monday, March 13 • 8pm

JONATHAN BISS BRENTANO QUARTET Schubert: Piano Sonata in A Major, D. 959 MARK PADMORE, tenor Schubert: Schwanengesang, D. 957 JONATHAN BISS, piano

Departure and Discovery: New Directions at the Apex of Creativity is supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. HSIN-YUN HUANG MARK PADMORE

215.569.8080 • pcmsconcerts.org 5 OCTOBER ‘16 DECEMBER ‘16 Jean-Guihen Queyras, cello Mark Padmore, tenor FEBRUARY ‘17 PCMS Alexander Melnikov, piano Jonathan Biss, piano Magdalena Kožená, mezzo Catherine Cho, violin SU M TU W TH F SA Malcolm Martineau, piano Hsin-Yun Huang, viola PT Friday, 1/27 • 8pm PT Monday, 3/13 • 8pm Season 1 2 3 4 PT Thursday, 10/13 • 8pm Marcy Rosen, cello Musicians from Marlboro III Ieva Jokubaviciute, piano 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Belcea Quartet FEBRUARY ‘17 PT Thursday, 3/23 • 8pm Calendar PS Sunday, 12/4 • 3pm 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 PT Monday, 10/17 • 8pm Julietta Curenton, flute Daniil Trifonov, piano Karen Slack, soprano 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 OCTOBER ‘16 Colin Carr, cello Emerson Quartet PT Friday, 3/24 • 8pm Lura Johnson, piano 26 27 SU M TU W TH F SA Thomas Sauer, piano PT Friday, 12/9 • 8pm 28 PS Friday, 2/3 • 8pm PS Thursday, 10/20 • 8pm 1 Curtis Chamber Orchestra APRIL ‘17 Shmuel Ashkenasi, violin/leader Danish Quartet 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Dover Quartet Judith Serkin & Friends MARCH ‘17 Roberto Díaz, viola PT Tuesday, 2/7 • 8pm Edgar Meyer, double bass PS Sunday, 4/2 • 3pm 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 PT SU M TU W TH F SA PT Friday, 10/21 • 8pm Sunday, 12/11 • 3 & 7pm Jennifer Koh, violin 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Shai Wosner, piano Quatuor Ebène 1 2 3 4 Anna Polonsky, piano Demarre McGill, flute PT PT Friday, 2/10 • 8pm Thursday, 4/6 • 8pm 5 7 8 11 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 Orion Weiss, piano Anthony McGill, clarinet 6 9 10 Michael McHale, piano Pamela Frank, violin 30 31 PS Sunday, 10/23 • 3pm Peter Stumpf, cello 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 PS Tuesday, 12/13 • 8pm Christian Tetzlaff, violin PS Sunday, 2/12 • 3 & 6pm 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Jerusalem Quartet PT Tuesday, 4/18 • 8pm PT Musicians from Marlboro I Sandrine Piau, soprano 26 27 28 29 30 31 NOVEMBER ‘16 Monday, 10/31 • 8pm PS Thursday, 12/15 • 8pm Susan Manoff, piano Emanuel Ax, piano PT SU M TU W TH F SA PT Tuesday, 2/14 • 8pm Wednesday, 4/19 • 8pm NOVEMBER ‘16 The Crossing 1 2 3 4 5 HT Friday, 12/16 • 8pm ECCO APRIL ‘17 Christian Zacharias, piano Brentano Quartet 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Sivan Magen, harp SU M TU W TH F SA PT Jonathan Biss, piano Tuesday, 11/1 • 8pm PT Friday, 4/21 • 8pm 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 JANUARY ‘17 PT Thursday, 2/16 • 8pm 1 Augustin Hadelich, violin Rudolf Buchbinder, piano 3 4 5 7 8 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Pablo Villegas, guitar Johannes Quartet Peter Wiley, cello 2 6 Kim Kashkashian, viola Anna Polonsky, piano PT Wednesday, 4/26 • 8pm 27 28 29 30 PT Thursday, 11/10 • 8pm 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Marcy Rosen, cello PS Friday, 2/24 • 8pm Juilliard Quartet 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Bernarda Fink, mezzo PT Sunday, 1/8 • 3pm PT Sunday, 4/30 • 3pm Anthony Spiri, piano Hagen Quartet 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 DECEMBER ‘16 PT PT Friday, 11/11 • 8pm London Haydn Quartet Tuesday, 2/28 • 8pm Eric Hoeprich, clarinet 30 SU M TU W TH F SA MAY ‘17 Modigliani Quartet PT 1 2 3 Tuesday, 1/10 • 8pm PT Thursday, 11/17 • 8pm MARCH ‘17 Ayane Kozasa, viola 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Escher Quartet Marina Piccinini, flute Amy Yang, piano MAY ‘17 Orion Quartet Samuel Rhodes, viola PS Friday, 5/5 • 8pm 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Beijing Guitar Duo SU M TU W TH F SA PS Sunday, 11/20 • 3pm PS Sunday, 1/15 • 3pm PS Wednesday, 3/1 • 8pm 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Time for Three 1 2 3 4 5 6 Lydia Artymiw, piano Ben Wager, bass Paul Appleby, tenor PT Tuesday, 5/9 • 8pm 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Charles Abramovic, piano 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Jeffrey Miller, piano Ken Noda, piano Cynthia Raim, piano Ingrid Fliter, piano 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 PS Wednesday, 1/18 • 8pm PS Friday, 3/3 • 8pm PT Natalie Zhu, piano Wednesday, 5/10 • 8pm 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 JANUARY ‘17 PT Monday, 11/21 • 8pm Jeremy Denk, piano Brentano Quartet PT Jennifer Johnson Cano, mezzo 28 29 30 31 SU M TU W TH F SA Friday, 1/20 • 8pm Hsin-Yun Huang, viola Mozarteum Orchestra of Salzburg Nathan Hughes, oboe Jonathan Biss, piano 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Matthew Halls, conductor Lysander Trio Rafael Figueroa, cello PT Monday, 3/6 • 8pm Radovan Vlatković, horn Charles Neidich, clarinet Ken Noda, piano 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 PT Perelman Theater, PS PS PT Tuesday, 11/29 • 8pm Sunday, 1/22 • 3pm Richard Goode, piano Sunday, 5/14 • 3pm Kimmel Center 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 PT Thursday, 3/9 • 8pm Ilya Poletaev, piano Musicians from Marlboro II Gamut Bach Ensemble PS American Philosophical 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Society PS Wednesday, 11/30 • 8pm PT Thursday, 1/26 • 8pm HT Wednesday, 5/17 • 8pm 29 30 31 Takács Quartet HT Church of the Holy Trinity PT Friday, 3/10 • 8pm 215.569.8080 • pcmsconcerts.org 7 MAGDALENA KOŽENÁ, mezzo-soprano BELCEA QUARTET

MALCOLM MARTINEAU, piano Monday, October 17 • 8pm Perelman Theater Thursday, October 13 • 8pm Perelman Theater COMCAST SERIES

VOCAL SERIES KIMMEL MASTER ARTISTS SERIES “The Belceas still play like a young quartet, seizing the music’s energy, shocking us out of our seats with every fortissimo” (). One of the leading string quartets of In addition to her stunning mezzo-soprano voice, Magdalena Kožená has a great gift for its generation, the London-based foursome presents a program featuring classic quartets communication, whether embodying complex characters in opera or perfectly capturing by Schubert. Between these early and late Schubert masterpieces, the group offers the tone of a gentle vignette in recital. For her PCMS debut, this captivating singer reunites Shostakovich’s eighth quartet, his most direct in form and expression and among the with one of the great vocal pianists of his generation, Malcolm Martineau, for a recital most revered of his quartets. featuring popular songs by Dvořák, Fauré and Wolf and a rare performance of cabaret songs by . Schubert: Quartet in E-flat Major, D. 87 Shostakovich: Quartet No. 8, Op. 110 Dvoˇr ák: Vier Lieder , Op. 2 Schubert: Quartet in G Major, D. 887 Wolf: Mörike Lieder [Sel.] Strauss: Drei Lieder, Op. 67 Fauré: Trois Chansons, Op. 23 Schoenberg: Bretllieder

215.569.8080 • pcmsconcerts.org 9 COLIN CARR, cello DOVER QUARTET THOMAS SAUER, piano EDGAR MEYER, double bass

Thursday, October 20 • 8pm American Philosophical Society Friday, October 21 • 8pm Perelman Theater

WAGMAN/BOROWSKY SERIES RECITAL SERIES at APS KARDON SERIES

Renowned cellist Colin Carr returns to PCMS for a recital with pianist Thomas Sauer, a The Dover Quartet is “already pulling away from its peers with its exceptional highly sought-after soloist and chamber musician. In a wonderfully crafted program of pieces interpretative maturity, tonal refinement and taut ensemble” (The Strad). Winner of top rarely (if ever) heard, Carr and Sauer pair solo and duo works by two British composers. prizes at the Banff, Fischoff and International String Quartet Competitions, Of particular note is Thomas Adès’s Lieux retrouvés, a characteristically thrilling tour de force the Philadelphia-based Dover joins forces with the incomparable bassist and composer in which the writing for the cello reaches uncharted levels of virtuosity. Edgar Meyer—“the most remarkable virtuoso in the relatively un-chronicled history of his instrument” (The New Yorker)—for a performance of Meyer’s own String Quintet, which Britten: Cello Sonata in C Major, Op. 65 encompasses bluegrass, jazz and classical styles. Adès: Traced Overhead for Solo Piano Britten: Suite No. 3 for Solo Cello Mozart: Quartet in F Major, K. 590 Adès: Lieux retrouvés Meyer: String Quintet Smetana: Quartet in E Minor, From My Life

215.569.8080 • pcmsconcerts.org 11 ANNA POLONSKY, piano JERUSALEM QUARTET ORION WEISS, piano Monday, October 31 • 8pm Perelman Theater COMCAST SERIES Sunday, October 23 • 3pm American Philosophical Society RECITAL SERIES at APS The Jerusalem Quartet “has everything you could wish for—miraculously honed intonation and perfect ensemble playing matched by innate understanding” (BBC Music). Celebrating Praised by the Cleveland Plain Dealer for his “inspired virtuosity,” pianist Orion Weiss joins its 20th anniversary in 2016-17, the Israeli foursome has garnered international acclaim and the “consistently captivating” (Washington Post) Anna Polonsky in their PCMS duo-recital a loyal PCMS following for its rare combination of passion, precision and warmth. debut. In a recent interview Weiss said of performing with his über-talented wife: “I think Haydn: Lark we are particularly good at playing four-hand works because of how much we like each other. Quartet in D Major, Op. 64, No. 5, Hob. III:63, Prokofiev: We never mind sitting so close to each other for such a long period and bumping elbows all Quartet No. 1 Beethoven: Razumovsky the time.” With this extraordinary couple, the love on the bench leads deeply into the music. Quartet in F Major, Op. 59, No. 1,

Mozart: Piano Sonata for Four Hands in F Major, K. 497 Brahms: Variations on a Theme of Schumann, Op. 23 Hartke: Piano Sonata for Four Hands [Philadelphia Premiere] Schubert: Andantino Varie, D. 823 Mendelssohn: Andante and Allegro Brillante, Op. 92

215.569.8080 • pcmsconcerts.org 13 CHRISTIAN ZACHARIAS, piano AUGUSTIN HADELICH, violin Tuesday, November 1 • 8pm Perelman Theater PABLO VILLEGAS, guitar PIANO SERIES THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10 • 8pm Perelman Theater

FIELD STRING SERIES KIMMEL MASTER ARTISTS SERIES Christian Zacharias is “a pianist of ideas. One always learns something important about the compositions he performs, about the composers whose works he’s playing, about music as such, from the way he plays.” So said The New Yorker in its review of a recent performance Praised for his “gorgeous tone” (The Times), Augustin Hadelich is well placed in of repertoire similar to what Zacharias offers in his PCMS recital. “The overarching idea of the top echelon of young violinists. He is joined by the dynamic guitarist Pablo Villegas, who the recital turned out to be: Beethoven is a god, Schubert is a demigod, and Schumann is has been lauded for putting “a warm, beautifully rounded guitar tone at the service of the their prophet.” music” (). Their recital features duo pieces by Piazzolla, de Falla and Biber interspersed with solo works. The program concludes with the duo performing one Schubert: Piano Sonata in A Minor, D. 537 of Paganini’s most beloved compositions, Mosè Fantasia, a dazzling set of variations on Beethoven: Piano Sonata in E Major, Op. 90 Dal tuo stellate from Rossini’s Moses in Egypt. Beethoven: Piano Sonata in E-flat Major, Op. 109 Schumann: Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6 Rodrigo: Invocación y Danza (Hommage a M. de Falla) de Falla: Cinco Canciones Populares Españolas Biber: Sonata Representativa Ysaÿe: Sonata for Solo Violin, Op. 26, No. 6 Dyens: Tango en skai Piazzolla: Histoire du Tango Paganini: Mosè Fantasia

215.569.8080 • pcmsconcerts.org 15 BERNARDA FINK, mezzo-soprano MODIGLIANI QUARTET ANTHONY SPIRI, piano Thursday, November 17 • 8pm Perelman Theater COMCAST SERIES Friday, November 11 • 8pm Perelman Theater VOCAL SERIES Possessing the elegance and transparency of a painting by its namesake, the Modigliani Quartet brings its distinctively French style and astonishing technical finesse to the Perelman The New Argentinian mezzo-soprano Bernarda Fink returns with a program featuring Schumann’s Theater for an evening of string quartet masterpieces. The group’s “Gallic cool” ( York Times well-known song cycle, Frauenliebe und –leben, and art songs from her homelands. Inspired ), with its undercurrent of passion, crisp articulation and rich timbres, is the perfect by his marriage to Clara, Schumann’s cycle celebrates a woman’s devotion to her husband. match for a well-crafted program that highlights the quartet’s “awesome individual and Strad Magazine Schumann’s piano mastery is evident throughout, as the instrument is given a more communal brilliance” ( ). prominent role than ever before in the song literature. The second half of the program Mozart: focuses on Slovenian and Argentinian songs—specifically thecanción de cámara, or chamber Quartet in D Major, K. 575 Schumann: song. Originating around 1900, it combines European classical style with South American Quartet in A Major, Op. 41, No. 3 Dvoˇr ák: American influences and lighter salon fare. The result is uniquely appealing music often tinged with a Quartet in F Major, Op. 96, melancholy beauty.

Wolf: Selection of lieder from the Spanisches and Italienisches Liederbuchs Debussy: Trois mélodies de Verlaine Schumann: Frauenliebe und -leben, Op. 42 Selection of songs by Slovenian and Argentinian composers

215.569.8080 • pcmsconcerts.org 17 ORION QUARTET LYDIA ARTYMIW, piano Sunday, November 20 • 3pm American Philosophical Society CHARLES ABRAMOVIC, piano KARDON SERIES CYNTHIA RAIM, piano Consistently beguiling and technically impeccable, the four “extremely virtuosic and NATALIE ZHU, piano accomplished players” in the Orion Quartet “seem to have been born to be together” (Los Angeles Times). Their annual Philadelphia appearance features compositions from the With Christopher Deviney and Don Liuzzi, percussion heart of the repertoire. Anchoring this program is Dvořák’s final string quartet—the last piece of instrumental chamber music in a vast oeuvre of more than thirty outstanding works. Monday, November 21 • 8pm Perelman Theater Op. 105 is a masterwork of construction and inspiration. Characteristic of Dvořák, the music PIANO SERIES MUSICAL FUND SERIES works so well “on the surface” that one may not immediately notice the ingenuity of detail that characterizes this highly integrated work of art. Four exceptional pianists with close ties to Philadelphia unite for a thoroughly unique evening Haydn: Quartet in F Major, Op. 50, No. 5, Hob. III:48 of music for two pianos. Musical Fund Society Career Advancement Award Winners Bartók: Quartet No. 2 collaborate with guest percussionists from the Philadelphia Orchestra in a thrilling program Dvoˇr ák: Quartet in A-flat Major, Op. 105 featuring Bartók’s Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion and Mozart’s sole contribution to the two-keyboard genre—a work of pure joy that testifies to Mozart’s musical brilliance.

Smetana: Sonata in E Major for Two Pianos Mozart: Sonata in D Major for Two Pianos, K. 448 Smetana: Rondo in C Major for Two Pianos Bartók: Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion 215.569.8080 • pcmsconcerts.org 19 MOZARTEUM ORCHESTRA ILYA POLETAEV, piano

OF SALZBURG Wednesday, November 30 • 8pm American Philosophical Society MATTHEW HALLS, conductor RECITAL SERIES at APS RADOVAN VLATKOVIĆ, horn Making his PCMS debut, Ilya Poletaev enjoys a multifaceted career as both a classically trained pianist and a performer on early keyboards. A pianist with an inquisitive mind, he embraces a wide range of repertoire choices and performance practices ranging between the 16th and Tuesday, November 29 • 8pm Perelman Theater 21st centuries. The Philadelphia Inquirer recently praised Poletaev’s Kimmel Center debut as SPECIAL EVENTS SERIES KIMMEL MASTER ARTISTS SERIES an “interpretation of considerable individuality” demonstrating “lively imagination” and “unfailingly gorgeous tone.”

Founded by Mozart’s widow, Constanza, in 1841, the Mozarteum Orchestra of Salzburg Bach: Partita No. 5, BWV 829 celebrates its 175th Anniversary this November. “Splendid ensemble, virtuosic and polished Enescu: Piano Sonata in F-sharp Minor, Op. 24, No. 1 instrumental skills, unforced balances and a disarming and relaxed stylishness” (Los Angeles Schumann: Arabeske, Op. 18 Times) are hallmarks of this esteemed ensemble, which makes its PCMS and Kimmel Center Schumann: Humoreske, Op. 20 debut with Radovan Vlatković, the “Croatian messenger of the gods of the valve horn” (Hamburger Abendblatt) who is considered by some to be the world’s most exceptional horn player.

Beethoven: Coriolan Overture, Op. 62 Mozart: Horn Concerto No. 3 in E-flat Major, K. 447 Mozart: Symphony No. 41 in C Major, K. 551, Jupiter

215.569.8080 • pcmsconcerts.org 21 CATHERINE CHO, violin EMERSON QUARTET HSIN-YUN HUANG, viola Friday, December 9 • 8pm Perelman Theater MARCY ROSEN, cello KARDON SERIES IEVA JOKUBAVICIUTE, piano Drawing inspiration from the great American poet and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson, the Emerson Quartet approaches each performance with an insight, enthusiasm and technical mastery easily connected to its namesake. It stands alone in the history of string quartets Sunday, December 4 • 3pm American Philosophical Society with an unparalleled list of achievements over three decades: more than thirty acclaimed COMCAST SERIES recordings, nine Grammy Awards (including two for Best Classical Album) and the coveted Avery Fisher Prize.

Four distinguished artists collaborate in a program of chamber music masterpieces. Many Beethoven: Quartet in F Minor, Op. 95, Serioso regard Dvořák’s Piano Trio No. 3 in F Minor as a milestone. It is uncharacteristically serious, Shostakovich: Quartet No. 4, Op. 83 stormy and fraught with tragic conflict—unusual for a man generally regarded as sanguine Tchaikovsky: Quartet in E-flat Minor, Op. 30 and uncomplicated—and it is believed that Dvořák was expressing his grief over the death of his mother. Brahms wrote his ambitious Piano Quartet No. 1 in G Minor at the age of twenty-eight. The third composition in what would become an oeuvre of some twenty-six chamber music masterworks, this quartet enjoys a stellar reputation in no small part due to its thrilling Gypsy Rondo Finale.

Dvoˇr ák: Piano Trio in F Minor, Op. 65 Brahms: Piano Quartet in G Minor, Op. 25

215.569.8080 • pcmsconcerts.org 23 SPECIAL TWO-PART CONCERT DEMARRE McGILL, flute CURTIS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA SHMUEL ASHKENASI, violin & leader ANTHONY McGILL, clarinet ROBERTO DÍAZ, viola MICHAEL McHALE, piano

• American Philosophical Society Sunday, December 11 • 3pm and 7pm Perelman Theater Tuesday, December 13 8pm WIND SERIES MUSICAL FUND SERIES SPECIAL EVENTS SERIES

Brothers Anthony and Demarre McGill have achieved phenomenal success in the musical The Curtis Chamber Orchestra—led by violinist of the legendary , Shmuel world. The only siblings ever to win the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant, Anthony was Ashkenasi—embarks on a memorable journey through all five Mozart Violin Concertos appointed the Principal Clarinetist of the in 2014, and Demarre has (performed by five Curtis students) and his Sinfonia Concertante (with Roberto Díaz). been the Principal Flutist of the Dallas Symphony since 2013. One of Ireland’s leading pianists, Michael McHale, joins these two outstanding musicians for an eclectic program that spans Part I over a hundred years and features both duos and trios. Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 1 in B-flat Major, K. 207 Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 2 in D Major, K. 211 Poulenc: Flute and Clarinet Sonatas Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 5 in A Major, K. 219 Shostakovich: Four Waltzes for Flute, Clarinet and Piano Dvoˇr ák: Slavonic Dances Suite No. 1 [Arr.] Part II Villa-Lobos: Chôros No. 2 for Flute and Clarinet Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 3 in G Major, K. 216 Schubert: Impromptu in E-flat Major, D. 899, No. 2 Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 4 in D Major, K. 218 Saint-Saëns: Tarantella in A Minor for Flute, Clarinet and Piano Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante in E-flat Major, K. 364 215.569.8080 • pcmsconcerts.org 25 MUSICIANS from MARLBORO I THE CROSSING Joshua Smith, flute; Francisco Fullana, violin; Maiya Papach, viola; Ahrim Kim, cello; Cynthia Raim, piano Friday, December 16 • 8pm Church of the Holy Trinity

SPECIAL EVENTS SERIES MUSICAL FUND SERIES Thursday, December 15 • 8pm American Philosophical Society COMCAST SERIES Hailed as “superb” (The New York Times), “ardently angelic” (Los Angeles Times) and “something of a miracle” (The Philadelphia Inquirer), the internationally-recognized choir makes its PCMS debut singing Kevin Puts’ To Touch the Sky, a 25-minute cantata that “What, exactly, are they putting in the water at the Marlboro Music Festival?” wondered a contemplates the “divine feminine” through texts by Emily Brontë, Sappho, Mother Teresa, Washington Post reviewer after a Musicians from Marlboro tour. “Not only is the virtuosity of Mirabai, Amy Lowell, Edna St. Vincent Millay and Christina Rosetti. Programmed with Musicians from Marlboro consistently jaw-dropping, but the freshness, rich imagination and other contemplative works appropriate to the season, this promises to be an evening sheer vitality of their playing is enough to make even the most jaded concertgoer edge to of beautiful music exquisitely sung. the front of his seat.” This season’s first tour from “the classical world’s most coveted retreat” (The New Yorker) offers works for piano, strings and winds and features Joshua Smith, the Principal Flutist of the .

Schubert: String Trio in B-flat Major, D. 471 Haydn: Flute Trio in D Major, Hob. XV:16 Reger: Serenade in G Major, Op. 141a Schumann: Piano Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 47

215.569.8080 • pcmsconcerts.org 27 JOHANNES QUARTET LONDON HAYDN QUARTET KIM KASHKASHIAN, viola ERIC HOEPRICH, clarinet MARCY ROSEN, cello Tuesday, January 10 • 8pm Perelman Theater

COMCAST SERIES Sunday, January 8 • 3pm Perelman Theater

COMCAST SERIES Widely considered to be the world’s leading exponents of Haydn’s music, the London Haydn Quartet has spent more than a decade reinvigorating the composer’s reputation and sound, “The Johannes is all I could ever dream of in a string quartet,” says no less of an authority bringing his peerless music to new audiences around the globe. With their gut–bowed period than , first violinist of the legendary . The group of four instruments and dazzling interpretations of familiar classics, they play the master’s opuses as esteemed artists has become a Philadelphia favorite in over 15 years of inspired music-making. they were meant to be heard: full of color, texture and verve, soaring with virtuosity and Its annual PCMS appearance has the Johannes collaborating with two equally-inspiring artists unexpected thrills. The LHQ’s Philadelphia/PCMS debut pairs them with classic period (Kashkashian and Rosen) on Brahms’ epic B-flat Major Sextet which, upon its premiere, specialist Eric Hoeprich for a performance of Mozart’s magnificent Clarinet Quintet. had his dear friend Clara Schumann commenting: “It was even more beautiful than I had Haydn: anticipated, and my expectations were already high.” Quartet in F Major, Op. 17, No. 2, Hob. III:28 Haydn: Quartet in D Major, Op. 20, No. 4, Hob. III:34 Mozart: Mozart: Quartet in B-flat Major, K. 589 Clarinet Quintet in A Major, K. 581 Bartók: Quartet No. 3 Brahms: String Sextet in B-flat Major, Op. 18

215.569.8080 • pcmsconcerts.org 29 THE CONCERT BEN WAGER, bass ESCHER QUARTET JEFFREY MILLER, piano SAMUEL RHODES, viola Wednesday, January 18 • 8pm American Philosophical Society • American Philosophical Society Sunday, January 15 3pm RECITAL SERIES at APS VOCAL SERIES KARDON SERIES

“A hugely compelling vocal and theatrical presence” (Philadelphia Inquirer), 2009 Academy of Vocal Arts graduate Ben Wager makes his PCMS debut with a program highlighted by Already, the fast-rising, NYC-based Escher Quartet are artists-in-residence at The Chamber Vaughan Williams’ Songs of Travel. Written between 1901 and 1904, this work represents Music Society of , where last season they presented a critically acclaimed Vaughan Williams’ first major foray into song-writing. Drawn from a volume of Robert three-concert series featuring the quartets of Benjamin Britten. Championed by the Emerson Louis Stevenson poems of the same name, the cycle offers a rather different take on the Quartet, the group has received accolades for its profound musical insights and rare tonal “wayfarer cycle.” Stevenson’s world-weary yet resolute traveler shows neither the naiveté beauty. Samuel Rhodes—former violist of the Juilliard Quartet—here unites with the Eschers of Schubert’s miller in Die Schöne Müllerin nor the destructive impulses of the heroes of in Bruckner’s F Major Quintet, a work that is little-known yet of the highest quality and Schubert’s and Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen. expressiveness.

Program includes a medley of serenades by Brahms, Mussorgsky, Mozart, Schubert Mendelssohn: Quartet in F Minor, Op. 80 and Rachmaninov, and Vaughan Williams’ cycle Songs of Travel. Britten: Quartet in C Major, Op. 36 Bruckner: String Quintet in F Major

215.569.8080 • pcmsconcerts.org 31 JEREMY DENK, piano LYSANDER TRIO Friday, January 20 • 8pm Perelman Theater CHARLES NEIDICH, clarinet PIANO SERIES Sunday, January 22 • 3pm American Philosophical Society

WAGMAN/BOROWSKY SERIES COMCAST SERIES MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” winner Jeremy Denk is “a pianist you want to hear no matter what he performs, in whatever combination—both for his penetrating intellectual engagement with the music and for the generosity of his playing” (The New York Times). The rise of Nazism and Fascism in Europe before World War II led to many important Having sold out his last three PCMS appearances at the Perelman Theater, the Avery Fisher composers being banned from music, whether because of their race or because their music Career Grant winner and The New Yorker writer returns to demonstrate once again why didn’t fit the regime’s view of art as a tool of propaganda. As a result, these composers fled he is one of the most compelling and communicative artists before the public today. to all corners of the earth, and many never experienced the level of recognition they enjoyed in their native lands. This program follows composers from Austria, Poland, Italy and Germany Medieval to Modern who fled 1930’s Europe for destinations such as California, Moscow and Tel Aviv. In their Jeremy Denk charts the history of Western music from the Medieval and Renaissance worlds music one can hear tunes from their homelands and the sounds of their adoptive countries, of Machaut, Couperin and Frescobaldi to Bach, Beethoven and Brahms, the modernists as well as echoes of the dark times that they endured. Stravinsky, Cage, Ligeti and Adams, and back to Machaut. Transplanted: Music by European Composers Displaced by WWII Ben-Haim: Variations on a Hebrew Melody Bartók: Contrasts Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Romanzero Con Variazioni Hindemith: Quartet for Clarinet and Piano Trio

215.569.8080 • pcmsconcerts.org 33 MUSICIANS from MARLBORO II JEAN-GUIHEN QUEYRAS, cello Nicholas Phan, tenor; Michelle Ross, violin; Carmit Zori, violin; Rebecca Albers, viola; Alice Yoo, cello; Lydia Brown, piano ALEXANDER MELNIKOV, piano

Thursday, January 26 • 8pm Perelman Theater Friday, January 27 • 8pm Perelman Theater FIELD STRING SERIES KARDON SERIES

The Musicians from Marlboro touring program offers “exactly the type of concert that the French cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras “produces a warm, dark tone … It is not high-gloss The New York Times classical scene needs more of” (Boston Musical Intelligencer). The second of three programs playing, but its character, power and color make it hard to resist” ( ). this year from classical music’s “life-giving spring” (The New York Times) spotlights Nicholas Captivating musicianship and compelling expressive integrity will be at the forefront during Phan—“one of the most eloquently communicative tenors on the scene today” (Baltimore his PCMS debut recital program with Alexander Melnikov, the highly regarded Russian-born Sun)—in a performance of Vaughan Williams’ On Wenlock Edge. Using poetry from A.E. pianist who scored rave reviews in his previous appearance with the Society in concert with Housman’s quintessentially English collection A Shropshire Lad, Vaughan Williams’ cycle is violinist Isabelle Faust. simultaneously sophisticated and down-to-earth, ingenious in its instrumental effects and Schumann: Fünf Stücke im Volkston straightforward in its setting of the texts. , Op. 102 Beethoven: Cello Sonata in A Major, Op. 69 Webern: Drei Kleine Stücke Haydn: String Quartet in D Major, Op. 76, No. 5, Hob. III:79 , Op. 11 Rachmaninov: Beethoven: Scottish Songs, Op. 108 [Sel.] Cello Sonata in G Minor, Op. 19 Vaughan Williams: On Wenlock Edge Beethoven: String Quartet in C Major, Op. 59, No. 3, Razumovsky

215.569.8080 • pcmsconcerts.org 35 JULIETTA CURENTON, flute DANISH QUARTET KAREN SLACK, soprano Tuesday, February 7 • 8pm Perelman Theater LURA JOHNSON, piano KARDON SERIES

The Danish Quartet has reached incredible heights in its 12 years of performing. These Friday, February 3 • 8pm American Philosophical Society four young musicians—three Danes and a Norwegian—have concertized throughout Europe,

WIND SERIES WAGMAN/BOROWSKY SERIES MUSICAL FUND SERIES demonstrating their technical mastery and joy of playing while remaining, in their own words, “simply your friendly neighborhood string quartet with above average amounts of beard.” The group’s typically adventurous program features the second Razumovsky quartet, a Flutist Julietta Curenton’s “tone glows more than it sparkles, and it draws in one’s ear with Philadelphia premiere by Norwegian composer Rolf Wallin, and a selection of folk tunes. sounds and ideas that simply cannot be resisted” (Philadelphia Inquirer). The 2012 Musical Fund Society Career Advancement Award winner returns to PCMS in a French-themed program Wallin: Quartet TBA [Philadelphia Premiere] with pianist Lura Johnson and soprano Karen Slack, who has “the kind of voice that can sing Selection of Nordic Folk Music anything beautifully” (San Francisco Classical Voice). Beethoven: Quartet in E Minor, Op. 59, No. 2, Razumovsky

Poulenc: Flute Sonata Ravel: La flûte enchantée Caplet: Viens! Une flûte invisible soupier Delibes: Le Rossignol Widor: Flute Sonata, Op. 34, No. 1 Wertheim: Trois Chansons for soprano, flute and piano Messiaen: Le Merle Noir Jolivet: Chant de Linos 215.569.8080 • pcmsconcerts.org 37 JENNIFER KOH, violin SPECIAL TWO-PART CONCERT PETER STUMPF, cello SHAI WOSNER, piano Sunday, February 12 • 3pm and 6pm American Philosophical Society Friday, February 10 • 8pm Perelman Theater RECITAL SERIES at APS FIELD STRING SERIES FIELD STRING SERIES KIMMEL MASTER ARTISTS SERIES

Not only do the Cello Suites rank among Bach’s greatest achievements—they are widely Grammy-nominated violinist Jennifer Koh, Musical America’s 2016 “Instrumentalist of the considered among the most profound of all classical music works. Peter Stumpf, the exquisite Year”—and Avery Fisher Career Grant winner Shai Wosner—a “keen musical mind and cellist of the Johannes Quartet, former Principal of the and senior deep musical soul” (NPR)—bring their “Bridge to Beethoven” project to PCMS. Exploring artist at Marlboro Music, takes us on their uniquely expressive journey in a special two-part the impact and significance of Beethoven on present-day composers and musicians, this recital of all six suites. program (selected from a four-part series) juxtaposes two of his landmark sonatas with a new work by German composer Jörg Widmann, illustrating the enduring power of Part I Beethoven’s revolutionary voice. Bach: Cello Suite No. 4 in E-flat Major, BWV 1010 Bach: Cello Suite No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1008 Beethoven: Violin Sonata in A Minor, Op. 23 Bach: Cello Suite No. 6 in D Major, BWV 1012 Widmann: Sommersonate [Philadelphia Premiere] Beethoven: Violin Sonata in F Major, Op. 24, Spring Part II Bach: Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007 Bach: Cello Suite No. 5 in C Minor, BWV 1011 Bach: Cello Suite No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1009

215.569.8080 • pcmsconcerts.org 39 SANDRINE PIAU, soprano BRENTANO QUARTET SUSAN MANOFF, piano JONATHAN BISS, piano

Tuesday, February 14 • 8pm Perelman Theater Thursday, February 16 • 8pm Perelman Theater

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Acclaimed for her clear and deeply expressive voice, nuanced phrasing and immaculate A theme of farewell runs through this program—the first of three inquiries on “latestyle” control, French soprano Sandrine Piau debuts with PCMS in an art-song recital showcasing that PCMS presents over the next four weeks. Beethoven’s farewell is to the piano sonata— another side of one of the most famous singers in the Baroque music world. “Her singing a medium in which he was so prolific yet ultimately declared to be too limiting. In Op. 111, has a wonderful, uncomplicated directness, utterly free of mannerisms or affectation” his most central qualities—inner turmoil, humanity and spirituality—are taken to magnificent (The Guardian). extremes. Bach’s farewell is to composition: these fugues—which do not even specify their instrumentation—are as rigorous and intricate as any music ever written. Britten’s farewell Chimères is to life itself: of the quartet’s harrowing last movement, Norbert Brainen of the Amadeus Recital of songs by Liszt, Debussy, Berg, Schubert and Wolf Quartet (the work’s dedicatees), said: “Ben wrote his own death.” Regarding Játékok, happily, György Kurtág is still very much alive and active at age 88. But nostalgia has been a preoccupation of his work, growing more apparent and moving as he ages.

Bach: Art of the Fugue, BWV 1080 [Sel.] Kurtág: Játékok, Volume VII, for Piano [Sel.] Britten: String Quartet in C Major, Op. 36 Beethoven: Piano Sonata in C Minor, Op. 111

215.569.8080 • pcmsconcerts.org 41 PETER WILEY, cello HAGEN QUARTET ANNA POLONSKY, piano Tuesday, February 28 • 8pm Perelman Theater

KARDON SERIES Friday, February 24 • 8pm American Philosophical Society

RECITAL SERIES at APS FIELD STRING SERIES Consisting of three siblings and the violinist Rainer Schmidt, this Salzburg quartet makes “music that challenges convention… with a beauty that brings you to your knees” (Hamburger Anyone who has heard Peter Wiley in recital can attest that he was born to play the cello. Abendblatt). Having recorded the Beethoven quartets over the better part of three decades, Revered for his years with the and the Guarneri Quartet, Wiley returns to the Hagens apply their singular sound—lean and direct, with fleet tempos and less vibrato— Philadelphia with Anna Polonsky, a gifted pianist who “darted like quicksilver in and around to the master’s graceful Quartet in G Major, Op. 18, No. 2 and foundational works by Bartók Wiley’s nifty bowing and fingering” Broad( Street Review) during the duo’s two previous highly and Brahms. acclaimed PCMS performances. Beethoven: Quartet in G Major, Op. 18, No. 2 Brahms: Cello Sonata in F Major, Op. 99 Bartók: Quartet No. 3 Debussy: Cello Sonata Brahms: Quartet in A Minor, Op. 51, No. 2 Fauré: Élégie, Op. 24 Chopin: Cello Sonata, Op. 65 Fauré: Après un rêve, Op. 7, No. 1

215.569.8080 • pcmsconcerts.org 43 CO-PRESENTED BY THE PHILADELPHIA CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY PAUL APPLEBY, tenor MARINA PICCININI, flute KEN NODA, piano BEIJING GUITAR DUO Friday, March 3 • 8pm American Philosophical Society • American Philosophical Society Wednesday, March 1 8pm RECITAL SERIES at APS VOCAL SERIES

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A tenor with a sweet, beautifully sculptured tone, Paul Appleby has already earned a strong Among the world’s leading flute virtuosos, Marina Piccinini is known for her flawless technical reputation for his expressive acting, interpretative depth and versatility. Appleby’s ability to command, profound interpretive instincts and charismatic stage presence. Her 2010 recording shape phrases “with melting tenderness” (The New York Times) is sure to be on display in a of the Bach Flute Sonatas is a landmark of the genre, and she revisits the six sonatas— wide-ranging program that features a new song cycle by Metropolitan Opera wunderkind celebrations of the flute’s technical and expressive qualities and tonal colors—in collaboration Matt Aucoin. with the Beijing Guitar Duo, hailed by the San Francisco Examiner for performances of “almost uncanny synchronization.” Program includes songs by Lachner, Schumann, Wolf, Berlioz, Villa-Lobos and Aucoin

Bach: Flute Sonata in E Major, BWV 1035 Bach: Flute Sonata in G Minor, BWV 1020 Bach: Flute Sonata in B Minor, BWV 1030 Bach: Flute Sonata in A Major, BWV 1032 Bach: Flute Sonata in C Major, BWV 1033 Bach: Flute Sonata in E Minor, BWV 1034

215.569.8080 • pcmsconcerts.org 45 BRENTANO QUARTET RICHARD GOODE, piano HSIN-YUN HUANG, viola Thursday, March 9 • 8pm Perelman Theater JONATHAN BISS, piano PIANO SERIES

Monday, March 6 • 8pm Perelman Theater Widely regarded as the heir to the mantle of his teacher in the classic period repertory, pianist Richard Goode is acclaimed for the tremendous emotional power, depth DEPARTURE & DISCOVERY SERIES and sensitivity of his playing—a rare combination of grandness and humility, boldness and depth. “Every time we hear him, he impresses us as better than we remembered, surprising us, surpassing our expectations and communicating perceptions that stay in the mind” Our second of three programs on “late style” focuses on the theme of waywardness. The (Gramophone). Schumann—the last piece he wrote before his suicide attempt—is daringly static yet deeply moving. The timelessly unconventional Madrigals of Gesualdo, from the 1500s, offer harmonic Program of works by Bach and Chopin schemes that are as unhinged as Gesualdo was himself. Brahms wrote his Op. 118 piano pieces years after he had resolved to give up composing. They have a remarkable emotional and structural concentration and have had a profound influence on “modern” composers. And Mozart’s final chamber piece enriches the question of late style through all that it is not: monumental, morose, valedictory. Instead, it is festive, virtuosic and life-affirming.

Schumann: Gesänge der Frühe, Op. 133 Gesualdo: Selected Madrigals Brahms: Klavierstücke, Op. 118 Mozart: String Quintet in E-flat Major, K. 614

215.569.8080 • pcmsconcerts.org 47 TAKÁCS QUARTET MARK PADMORE, tenor Friday, March 10 • 8pm Perelman Theater JONATHAN BISS, piano COMCAST SERIES Monday, March 13 • 8pm Perelman Theater

DEPARTURE & DISCOVERY SERIES “There is no finer ensemble in the world, expressively and technically” than the Takács Quartet (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette). Formed in Budapest in 1975, it has become a Philadelphia favorite for its unique blend of drama, warmth and humor, combining four distinct musical “One of the most pure and lyrical tenors in the business” (The New York Times), Mark personalities to bring fresh insights to the string quartet repertoire. Padmore returns to the PCMS stage with Jonathan Biss—“an artistic voice like no other” (Philadelphia Inquirer)—for our third curated program on the theme of “late style.” Both Haydn: Quartet in F Major, Op. 77, No. 2, Hob. III:82 artists’ profound understanding of Schubert will be immediately evident as they illuminate Beethoven: Quartet in F Major, Op. 135 the composer’s remarkable final works. The visionary quality in the music of Schubert’s last Ravel: Quartet in F Major year is unmistakable; there is a mix of feverish terror (in such songs as Der Doppelgänger) and consolation unlike anything else in music before or after.

Schubert: Piano Sonata in A Major, D. 959 Schubert: Schwanengesang, D. 957

215.569.8080 • pcmsconcerts.org 49 MUSICIANS from MARLBORO III Alexi Kenney, violin; Robin Scott, violin; Shuangshuang Liu, viola; Peter Stumpf, cello; Zoltán Fejérvári, piano

Thursday, March 23 • 8pm Perelman Theater KARDON SERIES

Bringing the “classical world’s most coveted retreat” (The New Yorker) to national audiences, the Musicians from Marlboro touring program has been lauded as “a virtual guarantee of musical excellence” (Washington Post). The season’s third and final Marlboro performance promises a program “so fresh and full-blooded, so full of earthly vitality and sheer sensual pleasure, that it makes you happy to be alive.”

Haydn: String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 74, No. 3, Hob. III:74, Rider Webern: Langsamer Satz Brahms: Piano Quartet in A Major, Op. 26 DANIIL TRIFONOV, piano

Friday, March 24 • 8pm Perelman Theater

JUDITH SERKIN & FRIENDS PIANO SERIES KIMMEL MASTER ARTISTS SERIES William Amsel, clarinet; Rose Vrbsky, bassoon; Jennifer Montone & Jeffrey Lang, horns; Lucy Chapman & Michelle Ross, violins; Dimitri Murrath, viola; Judith Serkin, cello; Twenty-five year old Russian dynamo Daniil Trifonov brings his “scintillating technique and Kurt Muroki, double bass virtuosic flair” (The New York Times) to the Perelman Theater in his hotly anticipated Piano Series debut. Trifonov is “a pianist for the rest of our lives... a major artist, phenomenally Sunday, April 2 • 3pm American Philosophical Society gifted and almost fully formed, with fresh ideas and a winning stage presence that is quite WIND SERIES irresistible from the moment he bounds through the door and sits at the keyboard, unable to contain his need to share” (Norman Lebrecht).

Nine outstanding musicians convene for a special afternoon of music-making—all of them Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op. 15 close friends/family who share a special bond in chamber music. This carefully-crafted Schumann: Toccata, Op. 7 program showcases several fine wind artists: clarinetist William Amsel in Reger’s Quintet, Schumann: Kreisleriana, Op. 16 a musical tour of late Romanticism; bassoonist Rose Vrbsky in a soulful Quartet by Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87 [Sel.] Philadelphia’s own Bernard Garfield; and two horns from the Philadelphia Orchestra, Stravinsky: Petrushka [Arr.] Jennifer Montone and Jeffrey Lang, in Mozart’s immediately charming D Major Divertimento.

Nielsen: Serenata in vano Reger: Clarinet Quintet in A Major, Op. 146 Garfield: Bassoon Quartet No. 1 Mozart: Divertimento in D Major, K. 205 215.569.8080 • pcmsconcerts.org 51 QUATUOR EBÈNE PAMELA FRANK, violin Thursday, April 6 • 8pm Perelman Theater CHRISTIAN TETZLAFF, violin COMCAST SERIES Tuesday, April 18 • 8pm Perelman Theater

FIELD STRING SERIES KIMMEL MASTER ARTISTS SERIES This adventurous young French quartet brings a quintessentially Gallic élan to everything it plays—from its 2009 Gramophone Recording of the Year to occasional forays into the world of Left Bank jazz. Don’t miss this group whose “rare degree of expressive subtlety, blended “A big, rich sound…phrasing breathes with great purpose. Even single notes don’t leave the Times, London sonorities and electrifying joy” ( ) makes it one of the most exciting European strings without meaning” (Philadelphia Inquirer). This assessment of Pamela Frank’s artistry quartets performing today. will ring true to her many fans who eagerly await this duo performance with Christian Tetzlaff, the Frankfurt-based violinist who has technique and charisma in spades—and the even rarer Beethoven: Quartet in B-flat Major, Op. 18, No. 6 ability to immerse himself entirely in the world of the composer whose music he is recreating. Debussy: Quartet in G Minor, Op. 10 Beethoven: Quartet in A Minor, Op. 132 De Beriot: Sonata for Two Violins in E Minor, Op. 57, No. 2 De Beriot: Sonata for Two Violins in G Minor, Op. 57, No. 1 Bartók: Duos for Two Violins [Sel.] Leclair: Sonata for Two Violins, Op. 3 Ysaÿe: Sonata for Two Violins

215.569.8080 • pcmsconcerts.org 53 EMANUEL AX, piano ECCO Wednesday, April 19 • 8pm Perelman Theater SIVAN MAGEN, harp PIANO SERIES Friday, April 21 • 8pm Perelman Theater

SPECIAL EVENTS SERIES WAGMAN/BOROWSKY SERIES One of the truly great pianists of our time, Emanuel Ax is revered for his poetic temperament and the unsurpassed virtuosity of his playing. Ax performances are “never The New York Times less than spellbinding,” raves . His first PCMS solo recital program in Comprised of 17 leading soloists and chamber musicians of today’s younger generation (many three seasons features core repertoire by Schubert and Chopin alongside a Philadelphia of whom are principals in major American orchestras), this “exciting, conductor-less band premiere by -based composer Samuel Adams, son of John. of strings” (The New Yorker) combines the power and expansiveness of a great orchestral ensemble with the personal involvement and spontaneity of chamber music. Of special note Schubert: Four Impromptus, D. 935 on this program is the Philadelphia premiere of Christopher Theofandis’s A Thousand Cranes, S. Adams: New Work TBA [Philadelphia Premiere] a symphony for strings. Chopin: Impromptus No. 1, Op. 29 and No. 2, Op. 36 Chopin: Piano Sonata in B Minor, Op. 58 Theofandis: A Thousand Cranes [Philadelphia Premiere] Caplet: Conte Fantastique Lutosławski: Five Folk Melodies Suk: Serenade in E-flat Major

215.569.8080 • pcmsconcerts.org 55 RUDOLF BUCHBINDER, piano JUILLIARD QUARTET

Wednesday, April 26 • 8pm Perelman Theater Sunday, April 30 • 3pm Perelman Theater PIANO SERIES KARDON SERIES

To watch and hear Viennese pianist Rudolf Buchbinder in concert is to experience the With four Grammy Awards and membership in the Hall of Fame of the National Academy totality of perfect phrasing, magnificent technique and an unparalleled love of his instrument. of Recording Arts and Sciences, the Juilliard Quartet has been the gold standard of string An evening of all-Beethoven with this singular artist promises Old World European tradition quartet playing for seven decades. For the group’s first PCMS program with new cellist imbued with Buchbinder’s trademark iconoclastic spirit. Astrid Schween, a pair of Beethoven quartets bookends a new work by Mario Davidovsky, echoing the credo of the quartet’s founders to “play new works as if they were established Beethoven: Piano Sonata in D Minor, Op. 31, Op. 2, Tempest masterpieces, and established masterpieces as if they were new.” Beethoven: Piano Sonata in E-flat Major, Op. 31, No. 3 Beethoven: Piano Sonata in G Major, Op. 14, No. 2 Beethoven: Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 74,Harp Beethoven: Piano Sonata in C Major, Op. 53, Waldstein Davidovsky: New Work TBA [Philadelphia Premiere] Beethoven: Quartet in B-flat Major, Op. 130 w/, Op. 133

215.569.8080 • pcmsconcerts.org 57 AYANE KOZASA, viola TIME FOR THREE AMY YANG, piano Tuesday, May 9 • 8pm Perelman Theater SPECIAL EVENTS SERIES Friday, May 5 • 8pm American Philosophical Society

RECITAL SERIES at APS MUSICAL FUND SERIES Stars of the cross-over scene, this young, dynamic string trio merges traditional, gypsy and jazz elements to form a style all its own. Returning to PCMS by popular demand for Hailed for her “magnetic, wide-ranging tone” and “rock solid technique” (Philadelphia Inquirer), its first appearance with new violinist Nikki Chooi, the “classically-trained garage band” violist Ayane Kozasa enjoys a career that spans a broad spectrum of musical personas. presents an eclectic, crowd-pleasing program that fuses music from Bach to Brahms with Well known to Philadelphians as an Astral Artist and member of the Aizuri Quartet, the their own arrangements of bluegrass and folk tunes, and ingenious mash-ups of 2011 Primrose International Viola Competition winner performs Arnold Bax’s virtuosic contemporary popular hits. sonata, a personally commissioned work by Brooklyn composer Paul Wiancko and more in her PCMS recital debut.

Schumann: Work TBA Bax: Viola Sonata Wiancko: Viola Sonata TBA [Philadelphia Premiere] Hindemith: Viola Sonata, Op. 11, No. 4

215.569.8080 • pcmsconcerts.org 59 INGRID FLITER, piano JENNIFER JOHNSON CANO, mezzo-soprano NATHAN HUGHES, oboe • Perelman Theater Wednesday, May 10 8pm RAFAEL FIGUEROA, cello PIANO SERIES KIMMEL MASTER ARTISTS SERIES KEN NODA, piano

Since winning the silver medal at the Warsaw Chopin competition 14 years ago, Argentinian pianist Ingrid Fliter has established a reputation as one of the preeminent interpreters Sunday, May 14 • 3pm American Philosophical Society of Chopin. Her 2014 Preludes disc made Gramophone’s list of 10 “Must Have” Chopin RECITAL SERIES at APS VOCAL SERIES recordings, and she performs the Complete Preludes here in a PCMS debut recital that promises “Chopin playing in the great tradition: rich-toned, generous though never profligate with its rubato, and invested with a vast range of keyboard color” (The Guardian). Winner of the 2012 Richard Tucker Career Grant, Jennifer Johnson Cano is recognized for her naturally lustrous sound and fresh, appealing stage presence. Her voluminous voice is Schubert: Piano Sonata in A Major, D. 959 characterized by “remarkable agility in her higher range and a molten contralto lower down” Chopin: Complete Preludes, Op. 28 (Washington Post). Cano is joined by a trio of MET luminaries—orchestra principals Nathan Hughes and Rafael Figueroa, and pianist Ken Noda, musical assistant to James Levine—for an intimate recital of vocal and instrumental chamber music.

Mendelssohn: Psalm 42: Meine Seele Dürstet Nach Gott Brahms: Zwei Gesänge, Op. 91 Vaughan Williams: Blake Songs Haydn: Arianna a Naxos, Hob. XXVIb:2 Berlioz: Damnation of Faust: D’amour l’ardante flame Instrumental works by Poulenc and Debussy 215.569.8080 • pcmsconcerts.org 61 Subscription and ticket income covers less than 40% of our budget.

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