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2-8-2005 Concert: The Louis K. Thaler Concert Violinist Series

Leon Fleisher

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Recommended Citation Laredo, Jaime and Fleisher, Leon, "Concert: The Louis K. Thaler Concert Violinist Series" (2005). All Concert & Recital Programs. 4331. https://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/music_programs/4331

This Program is brought to you for free and open access by the Concert & Recital Programs at Digital Commons @ IC. It has been accepted for inclusion in All Concert & Recital Programs by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ IC. / r ••• In his 40 years before the public, Jaime Laredo has enraptured millions with passionate and polished performances of rare style and elegance. As a soloist, he has played with over 100 international orchestras, among them the Boston and Chicago Symphonies, the , the Cleveland and Philadelphia Orchestras, the London Symphony, and the Royal Philharmonic. He has also collaborated with many eminent artists, including Pablo Casals, , Mstislav Rostropovich, , and .

As a conductor, Laredo regularly appears with the , Hartford, Houston, Montreal, New Jersey, Ottawa, Phoenix, , Seattle, and Utah Symphonies. And as an administra­ tor, he directs New York's at the Y series, one of the most important forums for chamber music performance in the United States. Born in Cochabamba, Bolivia, Jaime Laredo began playing the at age 5 and gave a full recital at age 8. Three years later he made his orchestral debut with the , prompting the San Francisco Examinerto proclaim: "In the 1920s it was Yehudi Menuhin; in the '30s it was Isaac Stern; and last night it was Jaime Laredo." Over the next few years, he studied with Josef Gingold, , and . In 1959, at the age of 17, Laredo won first prize in the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels, becoming the youngest winner in the history of that prestigious contest. As a member of the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio, which he formed in 1976 with his wife, cellist Sharon Robinson, and pianist , Laredo performs regularly in the music capitals of North and South America, Europe, Australia, and the Far East. The trio appeared at Ithaca College in January 2002. Laredo has recorded over 40 discs on 10 labels. Among them are the complete Bach sonatas for violin and keyboard, with Glenn Gould, and Beethoven's "Triple" Concerto, with Rudolf Serkin and . Laredo's recording of Brahms's three piano quartets, with Isaac Stern, Yo-Yo Ma, and , won the 1991 Grammy Award for best chamber music recording. Laredo has also won the Deutsche Schallplattenpreis. Other releases include Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante and Concertone, with Cho-Liang Lin and the English Chamber Orchestra, and Brahms's two string sextets, with Isaac Stern, Cho-Liang Lin, , Yo-Yo Ma, and Sharon Robinson.

In 1965 -"arguably the great classical pianist of his generation," according to Newsweek-could no longer play the piano: the fourth and fifth fingers of his right hand involuntarily clenched into his palm. For the next 30 years, while he searched for a diagnosis and a cure, Fleisher devoted his musical career to teaching, conducting, and gradually master­ ing the literature of left-handed piano technique. His performances and recordings of that repertoire won him critical and popular acclaim, as well as two Grammy Award nominations. l His disorder was finally diagnosed as dystonia, and an injection of Botox relaxed his curled-1.Jp fingers. In 1995, at a concert with the , Fleisher was able to play the Mozart Concerto in A Major, K. 414, successfully again with both hands. • • • •••

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Leon Fleisher PIAN 0 •••

Sonata (Sonatina) in A Minor for Piano and Violin, op. 137/2, D. 385 (1816) Allegro moderato ( 1797-1828 J Andante Menuetto and Trio Allegro

Sonata no. 3 in CJ Minor for Violin and Piano, op. 108 ( 1886-88) Allegro [ 1833-97) Adagio Un poco presto e con sentimento

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Sonata in A Major for Piano and Violin, op. 162, D. 574 (1817) Franz Schubert Allegro moderato Scherzo Andantino Allegro vivace

Patrons are requested to silence signal watches, pagers, and cell phones. The use of camera and recording equipmentI ' is prohibited by law. Jaime Laredo appears by arrangement with Frank Salomon Associates. Leon Fleisher appears courtesy: I of ICM Artists Ltd.