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Emanuel Ax, Piano Yo-Yo Ma, Cello CAL performAnCes presents Wednesday, February 26, 2014, 8pm Zellerbach Hall emanuel Ax, piano yo-yo ma, cello proGrAm Brahms and Beyond Johannes Brahms ( 1833–1897) Sonata No. 1 for Cello and Piano in E minor, Op. 38 (1862, 1865) Allegro non troppo Allegretto quasi Menuetto Allegro Brahms Sonata for Cello and Piano in D major, Op. 78 (1879) (arr. 1897 by P aul Klengel ( 1854–1935 ) from the Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Piano in G m ajor, Op. 78) Vivace ma non troppo Adagio Allegro molto moderato INTERMISSION CAL PERFORMANCES CAL performAnCes presents Brett Dean ( b. 1961) Hommage à Brahms (2013) for piano Engelsflügel 1: Nicht schnell aber fliessend Hafenkneipenmusik: Lebhaft, unruhig Engelsflügel 2: Langsam, zart Commissioned by Cal Performances; the Los Angeles Philharmonic; Symphony Center Presents, Chicago; and Carnegie Hall. Brahms So nata No. 2 for Cello and Piano in F major, Op. 99 (1886) Allegro vivace Adagio affettuoso Allegro passionato Allegro molto This performance is made possible, in part, by Corporate Sponsor U.S. Bank and by Patron Sponsors Gail and Dan Rubinfeld, and Susan Graham Harrison and Michael A. Harrison. Cal Performances’ #!"$–#!"% season is sponsored by Wells Fargo. CAL PERFORMANCES proGrAm notes Johannes Brahms (1833–1897) Since Brahms deleted the proposed Adagio sonata no. 1 for Cello and piano in e minor, from the First Cello Sonata, the work has an op. 38 unusual architectural plan: a large sonata- form structure followed by smaller move - Composed in KRPL and KRPO. ments in the style of a minuet and a fugue. “Hardly ever again did Brahms write such a Brahms was based principally in his home - movement as the first,” wrote Walter Neimann town of Hamburg during the decade of the in his study of the composer, “so rich and fer - 1860s , but he was frequently on tour through - vent in its inspiration, both human and spiri - out Germany and northern Europe as a pianist tual, or such an unalloyed record of intimate and accompanist during those years. Seeking emotion.” The cello announces the move - to broaden the range of his professional activ - ment’s main theme, a melancholy song that ities, he first visited Vienna and gave a recital the Brahms (and Bach) scholar Karl Geiringer there in September 1862 and was cordially re - noted was reminiscent of the Contrapunctus ceived. At the end of the year, he learned that III from Bach’s The Art of Fugue . The lyrical he had been passed over as conductor of the nature of the Sonata is reinforced by the sub - Philharmonic Concerts in Hamburg. Miffed at sidiary motive, a melody begun by an arpeg - the rejection by his hometown, he readily ac - gio that turns back upon itself before breaking cepted the offer of the Vienna Singakademie to into a large arch of wordless song. A brighter become its director the following summer and emotion is suggested before the end of the ex - regularly visited thereafter until he settled in position, but the development returns to the the city for good in 1870. introspective melancholy of the opening One of Brahms’s first important contacts in theme. The second theme and then the third Vienna was Dr. Josef Gänsbacher, a teacher of are treated in the development before a full re - singing at the Conservatory and an adminis - capitulation of the earlier subjects rounds out trator of the Singakademie , through whose in - the form of the movement. fluence he was appointed to the post with that The second movement is a microcosm of the organization. Gänsbacher was also an accom - history of the Austrian popular dance. The plished cellist, and it was for him that Brahms outer sections of its three-part form (A-B-A) undertook his Cello Sonata in E minor in are marked “quasi Menuetto,” and exhibit the 1862. Three movements were written for the polite demeanor associated with that old work in that year, but the Adagio was jetti - dance. The central trio, however, more ani - soned even before Gänsbacher had seen it; it mated in character and more adventurous in was not until three years later that Brahms re - its harmonic peregrinations, is one of the trib - turned to the Sonata and provided it with utes to the Viennese waltz that Brahms em - what now stands as its finale. (The original bedded in a number of his instrumental Adagio may have been reworked as the slow works, and which also inspired the set of movement of the F major Cello Sonata of Waltzes for Piano whose opus number (39) 1886 .) After the work was finished, immediately follows that of this Cello Sonata. Gänsbacher was eager to try it out, but as he The finale is a fugue poured into sonata read through the piece with Brahms he com - form, the sort of generic hybrid that also ab - plained that he was being drowned out by the sorbed much of Beethoven’s interest during his richly voiced piano part. “I can’t even hear last years. The subject, a ribbon of triplets, was myself,” he protested. “You’re lucky,” the cur - probably modeled on the Contrapunctus XIII mudgeonly Brahms bellowed back. When the from Bach’s The Art of Fugue ; the countersub - Sonata was published in 1866, it was the first ject (in eighth notes rather than triplets) is also of Brahms’s duo sonatas that he made public, used as the second theme in the sonata struc - though there are known to have been earlier ture. The movement bristles with precisely attempts that the secretive composer de - worked-out counterpoint in three and four stroyed without a trace. voices, a circumstance requiring a fullness of PLAYBILL proGrAm notes texture from the piano that prompted Daniel enough to accommodate the violin as a part - Gregory Mason to commiserate with the cel - ner. His other two violin sonatas followed list: “When you set a single cello to competing within nine years. The Op. 78 Sonata is a like this with the two hands of an able-bodied voluptuously songful and tenderly expressive pianist, the odds are certainly on the pianist.” testament to this important advance in The cello manages to assert itself in the final Brahms’s creative development, the musical pages, however, and leads through rousing counterpart of his sylvan holiday at stretto statements of the themes to bring the Pörtschach. His faithful friend and corre - Sonata to a close. spondent Elisabeth von Herzogenberg told him that the work “appeals to the affection as Brahms do few other things in the realm of music.” In sonata for Cello and piano in D major, his biography of the composer, Peter Latham op. 78 noted, “Brahms has written nothing more Arranged from the Violin Sonata No. K in spacious than these three violin sonatas, in G major, Op. QR, by Paul Klengel (KRON–KSMO) which he never seeks grandeur, and woos rather than compels.” Brahms himself allowed Composed in KRQS and arranged in KRSQ. that the Sonata No. 1 was almost too intimate for the concert hall. The work is one of his Brahms was inspired by his first trip to Italy, in most endearing creations, and it did much to the early months of 1878, to write his glowing dispel the then widely held notion that his and autumnal Piano Concerto in B-flat major. music was academic and emotionally austere. He returned to Goethe’s “land where the lemon “[The Sonata] must have won Brahms almost trees grow” six times thereafter for creative in - more friends than any of his previous compo - spiration and refreshment from the chilling sitions,” judged J. A. Fuller-Maitland. Viennese winters. On his way back to Austria The transcription of the Violin Sonata No. 1 from Italy in May 1879, he stopped in the lovely for cello and piano was done in 1897 by Paul village of Pörtschach on Lake Wörth in Klengel (1854–1935), the German pianist, vi - Carinthia, which he had haunted on his annual olinist, conductor, and composer who studied summer retreat the preceding year. “I only at the Leipzig Conservatory, held prominent wanted to stay there for a day,” he wrote to his choral conducting positions in Leipzig, friend the surgeon Theodor Billroth, “and then, Stuttgart, and New York, taught at his alma as this one day was so beautiful, for yet another. mater, and arranged many works for the firm But each day was as fine as the last, and so I of Simrock, Brahms’s principal publisher. stayed on. If on your journeys you have inter - The Sonata is, throughout, warm and ingra - rupted your reading to gaze out of the window, tiating, a touching lyrical poem. The main you must have seen how all the mountains theme of the sonata-form first movement, round the lake are white with snow, while the sung immediately by the cello above the trees are covered with delicate green.” Brahms piano’s placid chords, is a gentle melody lightly succumbed to the charms of the Carinthian kissed by the Muse of the Viennese waltz. Its countryside and abandoned all thought of re - opening dotted rhythm (long–short–long) is turning immediately to Vienna—he remained used as a motto that recurs not just in the first in Pörtschach for the entire summer. It was in movement but later as well, a subtle but pow - that halcyon setting that he composed his erful means of unifying the entire work. The Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Piano. subsidiary theme, flowing and hymnal, is Brahms had long been wary of the difficulty structured as a grand, rainbow-shaped phrase.
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