Round Top Music Festival 2014: Young Artists Chamber Music Program

Round Top Festival Institute presents the Round Top Music Festival 2014 June 1 through July 12, 2014.

Founded 44 years ago by concert pianist James Dick, the Round Top Music Festival annually has selected 92 students (from over 500 applicants) who study with master faculty and perform in the Texas Festival Orchestra and the Texas Festival Chamber Orchestra.

Programs for the two dozen concerts include works by composers ranging from Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Tchaikovsky to Elgar, Britten, Strauss, Vaughn Williams, Walton, Bartok, Lutoslawski, and many others.

Conductors include Christian Arming, Perry So, Heiichiro Ohyama, Charles Olivieri-Munroe, Pascal Verrot, Christoph Campestrini, Kenneth Woods, Linus Lerner, Ransom Wilson and Emilio Colon.

Featured soloists include James Dick, piano; Eteri Andjaparidze, piano; Stefan Milenkovich, violin; Brett Deubner, viola; Emilio Colon, cello; Erin Hannigan, oboe; Nathan Hughes, oboe; Kenneth Grant, clarinet; and Benjamin Kamins, bassoon.

Master classes and orchestra rehearsals are open to the public.

Concerts are performed in the fabled Festival Concert Hall (air conditioned, 1,000 seats.)

Food and Drinks are available every Saturday from 2:30 pm to 7:00 pm.

Young Artists Chamber Music Program
Wednesday July, 9 @ 7:00 PM
Festival Concert Hall

Repertoire

Quintet for Strings and Piano No. 2 in A, Op. 81 (1887)
Antonín Dvorák
(1841-1904)

1. Allegro, ma non tanto
2. Dumka: Andante con moto
3. Scherzo (Furiant): molto vivace
4. Finale: Allegro.

Quintet for Strings and Piano in a, Op. 84 (1919)
Sir Edward Elgar
(1857-1934)

1. Moderato – Allegro
2. Adagio
3. Andante – Allegro

Sextet for Violin, Viola, Cello, Clarinet, Horn and Piano in C, op. 37 (1935)
Erno Dohnányi
(1877-1960)

1. Allegro
2. Intermezzo
3. Allegro
4. Allegro vivace

Sextet for Piano and Winds (1939-40)
Francis Poulenc
(1899-1963)

1. Allegro vivace – Très vite et emporté.
2. Divertissement – Andantino
3. Finale – Prestissimo

Quartet for Strings No. 4 in c, Op. 18/4 (1798-1800)
Ludwig van Beethoven
(1770-1827)

1. Allegro ma non tanto
2. Andante scherzoso quasi allegretto
3. Menuetto: Allegretto
4. Allegro – Prestissimo

Quartet for Strings No. 1 in F, Op. 18/1 (1798-1800)
Ludwig van Beethoven
(1770-1827)

1. Allegro con brio
2. Adagio affettuoso ed appassionato
3. Scherzo: Allegro molto
4. Allegro

Quartet for Strings in F (1902-03)
Maurice Ravel
(1875-1937)

1. Allegro moderato. Très doux
2. Assez vif. Très rythmé
3. Très lent
4. Vif et agité

Quartet for Strings in g, Op. 10 (1893)
Claude Debussy
(1862-1918)

1. Animé et très décidé
2. Assez vif et bien rythmé
3. Andantino, doucement expressif
4. Très modéré – En animant peu à peu – Très mouvementé et avec passion

Quintet for Winds No. 1 (1948)
Jean Francaix
(1912-1997)

1. Andante tranquillo
2. Allegro assai – Presto
3. Tema con variazioni
4. Tempo di marcia francese

Bagatelles for Wind Quintet (1953)
György Ligeti
(1923-2006)

1. Allegro con spirito
2. Rubato. Lamentoso
3. Cantabile, molto legato
4. Vivace. Energico
5. (Béla Bartók in Memoriam) Adagio.
     Mesto — Allegro maestoso
6. Vivace. Capriccioso

Brass Quintet (1982)
Dan Welcher
(1948-)

Colchester Fantasy for Brass Quintet (1988)
Eric Ewazen
(1954-)

Three Pieces for Brass Quintet
Ludwig Maurer
(1789-1878)

And Then I knew
Toru Takemitsu
(1930-1996)

Serenade No. 10 for Flute and Harp, Op. 79
Vincent Persichetti
(1915-1987)

Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra in D (1945)
Richard Strauss
(1864-1949)

Duet-Concertino for Clarinet, Bassoon and Strings (1947)
Richard Strauss
(1864-1949)

Symphony No. 2 in D, Op. 36 (1802)
Ludwig van Beethoven
(1770-1827)

Adagio for Strings, Op. 3 (1891)
Guillaume Lekeu
(1870-1894)

Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta (1936)
Béla Bartók
(1881-1945)

Symphony No. 5 in B-flat, D.485 (1816)
Franz Schubert
(1797-1828)

Introduction and Allegro for Strings (1905)
Sir Edward Elgar
(1857-1934)

Concerto for Oboe and Strings in a (1944)
Ralph Vaughn Williams
(1872-1958)

Divertimento No. 2 in D, K.131 (1772)
W.A. Mozart
(1756-1791)

Metamorphosen for Strings (1945)
Richard Strauss
(1864-1949)

Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Suite, Op. 60 (1918)
Richard Strauss
(1864-1949)

Pictured: Maurice Ravel.