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This year, a cycle of great commitment, closely connected with the Quartetto’s traditions, is dedicated to the performance of Beethoven’s last six string quartets paired with Béla Bartók’s six quartets. We undertook this initiative once before, during the 1981-82 season, thanks to an idea proposed by Guido Borciani, and we are offering it again because of this music’s immense value. Six of the world’s finest quartets – the Jerusalem, Emerson, Cremona and Casals (from January to May) and the Takács and Haas (the following autumn) – will present these sublime, visionary compositions.This year, we are inaugurating a Rising Star cycle comprising young people who have already achieved significant international recognition and to whom we wish long life and great musical growth. They include the Dudok Quartet Amsterdam with the clarinetist Annelien Van Wauwe, pianist Alessandro Taverna, cellist Edgar Moreau with pianist David Kadouch, percussionist Simone Rubino (with his phantasmagorical instruments), the Hermès Quartet with pianist Gabriele Carcano, and pianist Seong-Jin Cho, who is the most recent winner of the Chopin Competition in Warsaw. We wish you good listening – and happily, it will be live.

The Società del Quartetto’s musical offering for the 2018-19 season at the Conservatory’s Sala Verdi consists of twenty-two events to be presented by some of the great artists on the international scene alongside “rising stars” who have already received prizes and recognition all over the world. The repertoire ranges from the Baroque to our own day. In an age in which music is increasingly consumed in solitude, be it on screens or through headphones – little doses of musical fragments – it is worth taking the trouble to reaffirm the irreplaceable value of the experience of listening to live music, in concert, shared with other people, without the use of electronic go-betweens: real listening, not virtual listening, that leaves a trace in our memory and increases our baggage of experiences and recollections. This is the moment when our cell phones are finally turned off, the lights dimmed and the magic of music begins to spread out – the moment when a direct relationship is created between the listener and the artist on stage, in a beneficent ritual that is simultaneously collective and individual.

So let’s enjoy this year’s live concerts. The parade of stars begins with the Berlin Philharmonic Octet (with an explosion of joy and vitality from Mendelssohn’s Octet); it continues with such great pianists as Daniil Trifonov, Emanuel Ax, András Schiff (in an all-Mozart concert with his Cappella Andrea Barca), Mitsuko Uchida, Rafal Blachacz and Benedetto Lupo; the violinists Leonidas Kavakos and Isabelle Faust; the King’s Singers, the Cappella Neapolitana conducted by Antonio Florio, and the winds of Les Vents Français led by flutist Emmanuel Pahud.

IN PRAISE OF LIVE MUSICby Paolo Arcà, Artistic Director

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BERLIN PHILHARMONIC OCTETStrauss - Capriccio, op. 85: SextetBrahms - Sextet in B-flat Major, op. 18Mendelssohn - Octet in E-flat Major, op. 20

DANIIL TRIFONOV piano Beethoven - Andante in F Major (Andante favori) WoO 57- Sonata no. 18 in E-flat Major, op. 31 no. 3Schumann - Selections from Bunte Blätter, op. 99- Presto Passionato in G minor, op. 22 bis Prokof’ev - Sonata no. 8 in B-flat Major, op. 84

DUDOK QUARTET AMSTERDAMANNELIEN VAN WAUWE clarinetLigeti - Quartet no. 1Mendelssohn - Quartet no. 6 in F minor, op. 80Mozart - Quintet for clarinet and strings in A Major, K 581

THE KING’S SINGERS Gold. Great music must shineA rich musical itinerary for celebrating the King’s Singers’ 50th anniversaryHenry Ley - The Prayer of King Henry VIBob Chilcott - Oculi omniumJuan Vasquez - Lagrimas de mi ConsueloOrlando di Lasso - Dessus le marché d’ArrasRichard Rodney Bennet - The seasons of his merciesGeorges Auric - Quand tu dors près de moi (arr. Gordon Langford)Gabriel Fauré - Le papillon et la fleur (arr. Goff Richards)Peter Louis Van Dijk - HorizonsTraditional song - Shenandoah (arr. Bob Chilcott)Traditional song - Lamorna (arr. Goff Richards)Paul Patterson - Timepiece Steve Martland - Poor RogerNico Muhly - To stand in this house Songs in close harmony: extemporaneous pieces from the performers

ALESSANDRO TAVERNA piano Chopin - Barcarolle in F-sharp Major, op. 60 - Grande valse brillante in A-flat Major, op. 34 no. 1 - Waltz in C-sharp minor, op. 64 no. 2 - Grande valse brillante in A-flat Major, op. 42 - Waltz in D-flat Major, op. 64 no. 1 - Ballade no. 4 in F minor, op. 52 - Scherzo no. 3 in C-sharp minor, op. 39 Brahms - from the 21 Hungarian Dances: nos. 1, 7, 4, 6, 8 and 5 - Variations on a theme of Paganini, op. 35

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EDGAR MOREAU celloDAVID KADOUCH pianoFranck - Sonata in A Major, op. 42Poulenc - Sonata for cello and piano, FP 143Mendelssohn - Sonata no. 2 in D Major, op. 58

EMANUEL AX pianoBrahms - Two Rhapsodies, op. 79Benjamin - Piano FiguresSchumann - Fantasiestücke, op. 12Ravel - Valses nobles et sentimentalesChopin - Three Mazurkas, op. 50 - Andante spianato and Grande Polonaise brillante, op. 22

CAPPELLA NEAPOLITANA ANTONIO FLORIO conductorLESLIE VISCO sopranoMARTA FUMAGALLI mezzo-sopranoFor the birth of the WordCaresana - Overture to Le avventure di una fede (The adventures of a wedding ring)- Pastorale for 2 voices “al Cantar” from Demonio vestito da Bifolco… (Devil dressed as Bumpkin)- Tarantella for 2 voices “Una dama più fortunata” (“A luckier lady”), from La Veglia (The Eve)- Dance, called “Barrera”, for 2 voices, from La Veglia- Lullaby for solo voice, from La VegliaNetti - Four-part overture, from La Filli Caresana - “Con un vel d’humanità” (“With a veil of humanity), for 2 voices, from La Caccia del Toro (The Bull Hunt)Anonymous Neapolitan (17th century) - TarantellaCaresana - Choro di doi Angioli (Chorus of two Angles), “Olà, che si fa?” (“Hey, what’s going on?”), from La Tarantella per la Nascita del Verbo (The Tarantella for the Birth of the Word) - “Hor che lucide e serene” (“Now that clear and serene”) for 2 voices, from La Pastorale A. Scarlatti - Cantata “O di Betlemme altera” (“O of proud Bethlehem”), for soprano and stringsAnonymous (18th century) - Pastorale for stringsFago - Mottet “Quid hic statis pastores”, for soprano, alto and strings

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JERUSALEM QUARTETBeethoven / Bartók Cycle - IBeethoven - Quartet no. 5 in A Major, op. 18 no. 5 Bartók - Quartet no. 2, op. 17 SZ 67 Beethoven - Quartet no. 12 in E-flat Major, op. 127

SIMONE RUBINO percussionAlexej Gerassimez - AsventurasRoberto Bocca - Esegesi (Exegesis)John Psathas - One Study on Summary Iannis Xenakis - Rebonds BPiazzolla - Verano Porteno - Oblivion - LibertangoWolfgang Reifeneder - Cross Over Maki Ishii - Thirden drums

CAPPELLA ANDREA BARCA SIR ANDRÁS SCHIFF conductor and pianoMozart - Concerto no. 15 in B-flat Major, K 450 - Symphony no. 39 in E-flat Major, K 543 - Concerto no. 17 in G Major, K 453

LEONIDAS KAVAKOS violinENRICO PACE piano Programme TBA

BENEDETTO LUPO pianoSchumann - Kinderszenen, op. 15 - Kreisleriana, op. 16Tchaikovsky - Grand sonata in G Major, op. 37

ISABELLE FAUST violinALEXANDER MELNIKOV pianoBeethoven - Sonata no. 4 in A minor, op. 23 - Sonata no. 5 in F Major, op. 24, “Spring” - Sonata n. 10 in G Major, op. 96

MITSUKO UCHIDA pianoSchubert - Sonata in A minor, D 537- Sonata in C Major, D 840- Sonata in B-flat Major D 960

QUARTETTO EMERSON Beethoven / Bartók Cycle - IIBartók - Quartet no. 3, SZ 85Beethoven - Quartet no. 15 in A minor, op. 132

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HERMÈS QUARTETGABRIELE CARCANO pianoFauré - Quintet no. 1 in D minor, op. 89Haydn - Quartet in E-flat Major, op. 33 no. 2, Hob.III.38, “The Joke”Brahms - Quintet in F minor, op. 34

LES VENTS FRANÇAISEMMANUEL PAHUD flutePAUL MEYER clarinetGILBERT AUDIN bassoonRADOVAN VLATKOVIC hornERIC LE SAGE pianoGlinka - “Trio Pathétique” in D minor, for clarinet, bassoon and pianoBeethoven - Variations on “Là ci darem la mano” for flute, clarinet and bassoon, WoO 28Spohr - Quintet for winds and piano, op. 52Saint-Saëns - Tarantella for flute, clarinet and piano, op. 6Rimsky-Korsakov - Quintet in B-flat Major, for winds and piano

QUARTETTO DI CREMONA Beethoven / Bartók Cycle - IIIBeethoven - Quartet no. 2 in G Major, op. 18 no. 2Bartók - Quartet no. 5, SZ 102 Beethoven - Quartet no. 11 in F minor, op. 95 “Serioso”

RAFAL BLECHACZ pianoMozart - Rondo in A minor, K 511 - Sonata n. 8 in A minor, K 310Beethoven - Sonata n. 28 in A Major, op. 101Schumann - Sonata in G minor, op. 22 no. 2Chopin - Four Mazurkas, op. 24 - Polonaise in A-flat Major, op. 53 no. 6

CUARTETO CASALS Beethoven / Bartók Cycle - IVBartók - Quartet no. 1, op. 7, SZ40 Beethoven - Quartet no. 14 in C-sharp minor, op. 131

SEONG-JIN CHO pianoSchubert - “Wanderer” Fantasy in C Major, op. 15 D 760Debussy - “Images”, Book I - “Le vent dans la plaine” from Preludes, Book I no. 3 - “La fille aux cheveux de lin” from Preludes, Book I no. 8 - “Des pas sur la neige” from Preludes, Book I no. 6 - “Ce qu’a vu le vent d’Ouest” from Preludes, Book I no. 7Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition

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Within the program of our 2018-19 season, we are starting a new cycle, Rising Stars, with strong support from a Foundation named after one of our faithful members, Giuseppina Araldi Guinetti. This is a fine, generous gesture in the most authentic Milanese tradition. Throughout its history, the Quartetto has presented not only the world’s greatest performers but also young artists who have only begun their stage careers but who have a good chance of becoming stars on the international scene. And we wish to help them along their way.

DUDOK QUARTET AMSTERDAM ANNELIEN VAN WAUWE clarinet

ALESSANDRO TAVERNA piano

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HERMÈS QUARTET GABRIELE CARCANO piano

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