The Schubert Club • Minnesota Saint Paul, • schubert.org Ad An dieMusik April 1 –May 14, 2012 schubert.org 1 Photo: Natasha D’SD’ chommer An die Musik April 1 – May 14, 2012 The Schubert Club • Saint Paul, Minnesota • schubert.org Table of Contents 6 James Sewell Ballet and The Parker Quartet 8 Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio 12 Hill House Chamber Players 14 Matthias Goerne and Leif Ove Andsnes 24 The Schubert Club Museum: Letter from Haydn 26 Escher String Quartet and Jason Vieaux 29 Artist from the Past: Nelson Eddy 30 Sandrine Piau and Susan Manoff 32 Accordo Letter from composer Maurice Ravel, gift of 34 Courtroom Concerts Gilman Ordway to The Schubert Club Museum. Photo by Natasha D’ Schommer, from the book To Music. For more information visit schubert.org/tomusic 39 The Schubert Club Annual Contributors: Thank you for your generosity and support 46 The Schubert Club Officers, Board of Directors and Staff Turning back unneeded tickets: If you know you will be unable to attend a performance, please notify our box office as soon as possible by calling 651.292.3268 or schubert.org/turnback. Donating your unneeded tickets entitles you to a tax-deductible contribution for the face value of the tickets. Turnbacks must be received one hour prior to the performance. Thank you for your contribution! The Schubert Club Box Offi ce: 651.292.3268 The Schubert Club is a proud member of The Arts Partnership with The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Minnesota Opera and Ordway Center for the Performing Arts 4 THE SCHUBERT CLUB An die Musik Dear Friends An die Musik of The Schubert Club, Du holde Kunst, in wieviel grauen Stunden, There’s more than a hint of spring in the air, and The Schubert Wo mich des Lebens wilder Kreis umstrickt, Club has a full and varied schedule of performances and Hast du mein Herz zu warmer Lieb entzunden, activities in April and May to which I welcome you. Hast mich in eine beßre Welt entrückt! Schubert Club favorite Leif Ove Andsnes returns to the Ordway, Oft hat ein Seufzer, deiner Harf ’ entfl ossen, collaborating with Matthias Goerne in his fi rst appearance on Ein süßer, heiliger Akkord von dir the International Artist Series. We’re delighted to welcome the Den Himmel beßrer Zeiten mir erschlossen, Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio and the Escher String Quartet Du holde Kunst, ich danke dir dafür! with guitarist Jason Vieaux to our Music in the Park Series –Franz von Schober In addition to these concerts, we hope to see you at one of the many other events we are co-presenting including April To Music performances at The Cowles Center in Minneapolis by James You noble art, in how many dreary hours, Sewell Ballet. The Grammy Award-winning Parker Quartet When life’s mad whirl has snared me, provides live performances of Beethoven’s masterpiece, String Have you kindled my heart to a warmer love, Quartet, Opus 131, choreographed by Artistic Director James Have you released me into a better world! Sewell. There is more to read about this collaboration on page 6. Please consider visiting our Museum this spring at Landmark Often has a sigh, fl owing from your harp, Center on Rice Park. We have a beautiful collection of keyboard A sweet, divine chord from you, instruments from various centuries as well as a display of some Revealed better times, as if heaven-sent. of the fascinating composer letters donated by Gilman Ordway. You noble art, I thank you! You’ll also fi nd several quirky music players, early inventions for playing back recorded music which never quite took off. The Museum is open noon to 4pm, Sunday through Friday, and guides are available to show you around. Finally, please don’t forget to renew your series subscriptions for the 2012–13 season. Priority treatment for renewers ends early in June, and we are looking forward to a 130th anniversary season fi lled with the joy of music. With warmest wishes, Barry Kempton Artistic and Executive Director schubert.org 5 James Sewell Ballet and The Parker Quartet: Opus 131 April 13–15, 20–22, 2012 The Cowles Center, Minneapolis Set to Beethoven’s seminal work, Opus 131 is the center- piece of the James Sewell Ballet’s spring program. Their ongoing collaboration with The Schubert Club unites the brilliant, Grammy Award-winning Parker Quartet with virtuosic dancers in what the New York Times calls a rich, fanciful masterpiece. The second half of the program pushes the creative frontier with a world premiere by James Sewell that leads to the nexus between Argentine tango, ballet and contact improvisation. “. to me Opus 131 is like the evolution of a society . It starts sublimely and in innocence. In the middle, with the scherzo, it’s like a children’s game. Further in, where I have the pas de deux, it’s deeply romantic. The last section, in music as well as in movement, starts breaking all the rules but fi nally in the end fi nds its own sense of resolution . .” –James Sewell Read more about James Sewell’s conception of Opus 131 in his conversation with Barry Kempton at schubert.org/jsballet Photo: Erik Saulitis The Parker Quartet Photo: Janette Beckman 6 THE SCHUBERT CLUB An die Musik The Schubert Club 2012–2013 Season International Artist Series Karita Mattila, soprano Wednesday, October 3, 2012 Stephen Hough, piano Tuesday, November 20, 2012 Alisa Weilerstein, cello Inon Barnatan, piano Tuesday, January 8, 2013 James Valenti, tenor Saturday, February 9, 2013 Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin Lambert Orkis, piano Monday, March 11, 2013 Music in the Park Series Photo: Anja Frers / DG Photo: Anja Frers Philharmonia Quartett Berlin Sunday, October 7, 2012 Baiba Skride, violin Lauma Skride, piano Sunday, October 28, 2012 Aulos Ensemble, with Dominique Labelle, soprano Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin Sunday, November 25, 2012 David Finckel, cello Wu Han, piano Sunday, January 27, 2013 Elias Quartet Sunday, March 24, 2013 Shanghai Quartet Sunday, April 28, 2013 schubert.org The Schubert Club Music in the Park Series Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio Joseph Kalichstein, piano • Jaime Laredo, violin Sharon Robinson, cello Program Sonata for Cello and Piano (1915) Claude Debussy (1862–1918) Prologue: Lent, sostenuto e molto risoluto Sérénade: Modérément animé Final: Animé Sonata for Violin and Piano (1917) Debussy Allegro vivo Intermède: Fantasque et léger Finale: Très animé Trio in D major, Opus 70, No. 1, Ghost Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) Allegro vivace e con brio Largo assai ed espressivo Presto Intermission Inventions on a Marriage (2010) Richard Danielpour (b. 1956) Mirror Image Heroics As You Were Sleeping Argument Reconciliation Celebration Good Night Trio in A minor Maurice Ravel (1875–1937) Modéré Pantoum (Assez vif) Passacaille (Très large) Final (Animé) Please turn off all electronic devices. Music in the Park Series Sunday, April 15, 2012 • 4:00 PM Saint Anthony Park United Church of Christ On the recording front, the ensemble has entered an exciting new partnership with KOCH International Classics. The Trio’s most recent recording project, a 4-disc Brahms Cycle of the complete trios, was released in autumn 2009. The release includes the fi nal two CDs of the project, following a previous release of the fi rst two CDs in 2008. Their Arensky & Tchaikovsky disc was released in October 2006 to great acclaim. KOCH also re-released many of the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio’s hallmark recordings, including chamber works of Maurice Ravel, A Child’s Reliquary (piano trio) and In the Arms of the Beloved (double concerto) by Richard Danielpour, the complete sonatas and trios of Shostakovich, trios by Pärt, Zwilich, Kirchner and Silverman written especially for the group, and their beloved collection of the complete Beethoven Trios. From left: Joseph Kalichstein, Jaime Laredo, In December 2001, the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Sharon Robinson Trio were awarded ‘Ensemble of the Year’ for 2002 by Musical America. The 2003–04 season was their fi rst as Chamber Ensemble in Residence at the Kennedy Center, an honor which has continued to thrill the Trio throughout Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio subsequent seasons. They were also awarded the fi rst After more than three decades of great success, many annual Samuel Sanders Collaborative Artists Award by the recordings, and newly commissioned works, the Kalichstein- Foundation for Recorded Music. Jaime Laredo and Sharon Laredo-Robinson Trio continues to dazzle audiences Robinson joined the faculty of the Indiana University and critics alike with their performances. Since making Jacobs School of Music in 2005, while Joseph Kalichstein their debut at the White House for President Carter’s continues as a long-revered teacher at the Juilliard School Inauguration in January 1977, pianist Joseph Kalichstein, of Music. violinist Jaime Laredo and cellist Sharon Robinson have set the standard for performance of the piano trio literature for more than thirty years. During past seasons, the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio has maintained a heavy touring schedule that has taken them across the globe. Memorable concerts over the years include the Trio’s performance on Carnegie Hall’s Centennial Series; tours of Japan, New Zealand and Australia; a series with the Guarneri Quartet featuring Brahms’ entire literature for piano and strings; the Beethoven cycle on Lincoln Center’s Great Performers Series and performances The creation of Inventions On A Marriage for Jaime Laredo, across America and Europe of new concertos written violin and Sharon Robinson, cello was made possible with exclusively for the Trio. In Europe, the Kalichstein-Laredo- the support of The Schubert Club/Music in the Park Series Robinson Trio has performed in Amsterdam, Barcelona, in memory of Roberta Gladowski; The Virginia Arts Festival; Brussels, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Lisbon, London, Vienna, Honest Brook Music Festival (NY); The Jane Ambrose and Paris, as well as at major international music festivals Commissioning Fund of the University of Vermont Lane in Aldeburgh, Edinburgh, Granada, Helsinki, Highlands, Series (VT); Raleigh Chamber Music Guild (NC), The Schubert South Bank, Stresa and Tivoli.