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This concert is included in these packages: Chamber Music Dialogues, A Weekend with Jeremy Denk, Mozart’s Enduring Influence, Fantasy and Fury: Music of the Romantic, and Season Sampler.
Jeremy Denk, a MacArthur Genius Grant-winning pianist that “you want to hear no matter what he performs” (New York Times), joins Colburn faculty and students in this program of electric quintets. Opening the concert is Mozart’s Quintet for Piano and Winds, a work that masterfully balances the piano against oboe, clarinet, horn, and bassoon in what the composer described as “the best thing I have written in my life.” Edward Elgar’s Piano Quintet, composed in 1918 in the shadow of World War I, starts on an eerie tone before modulating towards a brighter, more symphonic end. In between these masterworks is Valerie Coleman’s Tzigane, a “passionate journey through woodwind virtuosity” inspired by Ravel’s similarly named Hungarian rhapsody for violin.
MOZART Quintet in E-flat Major for Piano and Winds VALERIE COLEMAN Tzigane for Wind Quintet ELGAR Quintet in A Minor for Piano and String Quartet