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MUSIC; Young Performers in Recital

Sherman, Robert

1995

Overview

In addition to Mr. Berman, the roster of faculty and guest artists for the two concerts consists of the violinists Gyorgy Pauk and Peter Salaff, the cellists Ralph Kirshbaum and Ole Akahoshi, the violist Atar Arad and the clarinetist David Krakauer. Friday's 8 P.M. program lists the F major Cello Sonata, the Clarinet Trio and the G minor Piano Quartet; on Saturday, the F minor Viola and D minor Violin Sonatas preface the A major Piano Quartet. Brahms is on the Music Mountain menu this week too -- the String Sextet next Sunday -- but otherwise the programming is far more varied. Today, for example, the Cavani String Quartet begins its 3 o'clock recital with Haydn, continues with Shostakovich -- the Quartet No. 14, a considerably more cheerful work than most others dating from the composer's final years -- and concludes with Ernest Bloch's Quintet No. 1, the last with Peter Takacs as guest pianist. On the first occasion, look for Beethoven's F minor Quartet (Op. 95), and another Shostakovich, the early F major, No. 3, plus Mozart's K. 581 Quintet, with Ethan Sloane as guest clarinetist. At the Sunday session, the Leontovitch shares the stage with the Orlando String Quartet, each ensemble going it alone -- the Orlando with Mozart, the Leontovitch with Tchaikovsky -- after which the players are mixed and matched for the promised Brahms String Sextet in G.

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• Subject: CONCERTS AND RECITALS / MUSIC