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00:00 Eugène Ysaÿe, Sonata for Solo Violin in A minor, Op. 27 No. 2 “Jacques Thibaud“ 01:16 1. Obsession. Prélude 04:07 2. Malinconia 07:08 3. Danse des Ombres. Sarabande 11:22 4. Les furies Augustin Hadelich — Violinist ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 14:50 Camille Saint-Saëns, Danse macabre, Op. 40 Augustin Hadelich — Violinist Inon Barnatan — Pianist ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Martin Butler, Dirty Beasts 21:40 1. The Pig 25:35 2. The Tummy Beast 29:23 3. The Crocodile Inon Barnatan — Pianist Rose Lombardo — Flutist, piccolist Nicholas Daniel — Oboist Mark Simpson — Clarinetist, bass-clarinet Eleni Katz — Bassoonist Jennifer Montone — Hornist Danny Burstein — Actor ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 33:16 Thomas Adès, Catch Alexi Kenney — Violinist Jay Campbell — Cellist Thomas Adès — Pianist -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 45:55 Maurice Ravel, La valse (for two pianos) Thomas Adès — Pianist Inon Barnatan — Pianist ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Franz Schubert, String Quartet No. 14 in D Minor, D. 810, “Death and the Maiden“ 59:41 1. Allegro 1:11:52 2. Andante con moto 1:26:05 3. Scherzo: Allegro molto 1:30:21 4. Prest Andrew Wan — Violinist Tessa Lark — Violinist Teng Li — Violist Jonathan Swensen — Cellist ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Program notes A macabre mélange with an exceptional cast of artists comes to you from La Jolla SummerFest 2024 centered around a feverish performance of Saint-Saëns’s Danse Macabre by violin virtuoso Augustin Hadelich and piano star Inon Barnatan! Hadelich also performs Ysaÿe’s “Obsession“ Violin Sonata No. 2, a clever pastiche whose reworking of Bach’s E-major Partita is haunted by a persistent “Dies irae“ motif; and Barnatan returns to perform the piano part in Martin Butler’s Dirty Beasts, a mischievous triptych inspired by the works of Roald Dahl, as well as the two-piano arrangement of Ravel’s La Valse with the great Thomas Adès — whose own Catch stages the musical pursuit of a clarinet by a violin, cello, and piano. The program closes with Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden“ Quartet, one of the pinnacles of chamber music that ends with a Danse Macabre of its own, a relentlessly driving tarantella that briefly seems to promise a major-key conclusion before the ineluctable return of D minor. Venue: The Baker-Baum Concert Hall (La Jolla, CA, USA) Production date: 2024
