Peter Stumpf, Cello; Cynthia Raim, Piano Thursday, January 15, 2015 – 8:00 PM Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center
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PREVIEW NOTES Ida Levin, violin; Peter Stumpf, cello; Cynthia Raim, piano Thursday, January 15, 2015 – 8:00 PM Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center Program Piano Trio in C Major, K. 548 elsewhere in his music, Strauss is less comfortable with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart homophonic texture than with polyphony. The final Born: January 27, 1756 in Salzburg, Austria movement is a humorous, canonic Allegro marked by Died: December 5, 1791 in Vienna, Austria adventurous harmonies and a lighthearted and Composed: 1788 rhetorical use of silence that foreshadows Strauss' later Last PCMS performance: Beaux Arts Trio in 1995 works. Though the influence of Mendelssohn is clearly Duration: 21 minutes present, early indications of Wagner's increasing influence on Strauss are also in evidence. The first movement opens as simply as any teaching exercise and although there are some bravura passages Piano Trio in D Minor, Op. 49 and runs, the work is after all in C Major and the Felix Mendelssohn difficulty is slight. A center development section Born: February 3, 1809 in Hamburg, Germany contains accidentals and modulations but these are Died: November 4, 1847 in Leipzig, Germany timid as opposed to the aggressive, even maniacal ones Composed: 1839 found in the K. 542 trio and the K. 543 symphony. An Last PCMS performance: extended andante of over nine and a half minutes is Kalichstein‐Laredo‐Robinson Trio in 2011 likewise in the key of C and is elementary throughout. Duration: 28 minutes Cello Sonata in F Major, Op. 6 Without introduction, the cello states the song‐like main Richard Strauss theme of the trio’s first movement against a syncopated Born: June 11, 1864 in Munich, Germany accompaniment in the piano. Later, the violin joins the Died: September 8, 1949 in Garmisch‐Partenkirchen, Germany cello with a distorted version of the theme. Variations of Composed: 1880‐83 the theme fill the transition to the second subject, an Last PCMS performance: Peter Stumpf in 2003 arching melody on the dominant that is also introduced Duration: 23 minutes by the cello. The piano introduces the second movement. After the piano states the lyrical, eight‐ Highly praised following its premiere, Strauss’ Cello measure theme, the violin repeats it with a Sonata is dedicated to cellist Hans Wihan, with whose counterpoint in the cello. Mendelssohn's third wife, Dora, Strauss fell in love prior to his own marriage movement is concise and light. As in the second to Pauline de Ahna. The work is in three movements and movement, the piano first states the main theme, which showcases both Strauss' lyrical melodic writing for cello begins to reduce itself to fragments almost immediately. and his considerable understanding of the piano. The A rhythmic germ from the first theme permeates the first movement features a multiplicity of themes in a movement, except in the more lyrical central section, kind of dialogue. Each theme is actually a group the theme of which resembles material from the first consisting of two contrasting themes: the first and movement. The fourth movement is very piano heavy second groups contrast with one another—per the and features all types of keyboard writing occur in the typical practices of sonata form—but the themes are movement, from close‐position chords to swirling also internally divided, each group having one strong, arpeggios and chromatic octaves. The cantabile declamatory theme and one of a more gentle, lyrical moments are refreshing, as is the shift to D Major nature. The second movement is a chorale and, as shortly before the close. .