Description

NEPACMS opens their 2023-2024 concert season with a program weaving soulful and haunting melodies with boisterous and joyful exuberance. Highly regarded by contemporaries such as Robert Schumann, Kalliwoda was a violinist and prolific composer with great skill in blending symphonic structure with Czech flair. Followed by the unforgettably beautiful Trio élégiaque in G minor by Rachmaninoff, the program ends with the incomparable second piano quintet by Dvořák.

PROGRAM

Johann Kalliwoda: Duet for violin and viola, No. 1, Op. 208

Sergei Rachmaninoff: Trio élégiaque No. 1 in G minor

Antonín Dvořák: Piano Quintet No. 2 in A Major Op. 81

ARTISTS

John Vaida, violin

Arthur Moeller, violin

Amy Iwazumi, viola

Lisa Caravan, cello

Brian Farrell, piano