Postcards From Near & Far
featuring MinTze Wu, Chieh-Fan Yiu, Josh Halpern, and Chih-Long Hu
Postcards carry memories, footprints of travels, and moments of awe, joy, and nostalgia. Placing our collected experience into these tiny paper frames to share with those we love, we send and receive them from the ends of the earth. In this program, we travel to different parts of the world, experiencing music from Finland, Sweden, Bulgaria. With compositions by Karmanov, Rachmaninoff, Mahler, and Brahms, we intersperse postcards sent and received—some delightful, some poignant—that capture those unparalleled moments that make up the precious collections of our lives.
Program
Pavel Karmanov: “Innerlichkeit”
Bergfäst ("Rock Mount" in Swedish)
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Sonata in G minor for Cello & Piano — III. Andante
Maamo (“Mother" in Finnish)
Belcimis (Bulgarian Folk Dance)
Gustav Mahler: Adagietto from Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp minor (arranged for piano quartet)
~Intermission~
Johannes Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25
Artists
MinTze Wu, violin
Chieh-Fan Yiu, viola
Josh Halpern, cello
Chih-Long Hu, piano