The Olympic Music Festival

Schedule:

2:00 p.m: The Final Romantics
Chamber Music Masters

Artists
Alexi Kenney  violin
Scott St. John violin
John Largess viola
Efe Baltacıgil cello
Julio Elizalde piano
Robert McDonald piano

Program
Brahms  Six Piano Pieces, op. 118
Strauss  Violin Sonata in E-flat major, Op. 18
Dvořák  Piano Quartet No. 2 in E-flat major, Op. 87

Concert Details
As the nineteenth century became the twentieth, composers were beginning to drift apart while one faction held on to the romantic harmony that had become standard for decades, and the other began to explore the limits of harmony and question whether it even needed to exist anymore. Brahms was a powerful opponent to the Wagnerian influence in Europe, rejecting hyper expressive excess in favor of honoring Beethoven’s structural precision. His late piano works show a composer reaching the end of his career, combining his most intimate thoughts with unmatched compositional precision. Richard Strauss was known for his brilliant operas and his early Violin Sonata captures the inspired romantic melodies that earned him thunderous public acclaim. Dvořák’s folk-inspired Piano Quartet includes one of most magical slow movements in all of chamber music.

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