From the golden splendor of Renaissance Venice to the warmth of the 20th century, this program takes audiences on a grand tour through four centuries of chamber music. Hear the majestic brass of Giovanni Gabrieli, the intimate vocal songs of William Byrd transformed for instruments, the elegant classicism of Johann Christian Bach, and the glittering, Paris-inflected neoclassicism of Alexandre Tansman's exuberant Septet – with Schumann's passionate Adagio and Allegro and Böhme's shimmering St. Petersburg nocturne along the way. It's a celebration of just how many moods and worlds chamber music can inhabit, all in one evening.

PROGRAM

Gabrieli, Giovanni - Canzona per sonare No. 2

Byrd, William - A Byrd Collection

Grace O'Connell, trumpet; Wiff Rudd, trumpet; David Loucky, trombone; Donald Robinson, trombone

Bach, Johann Christian - Quartet in C major, Op. 19, No. 1

Valerie Watts, flute; Shawn Welk, oboe; Bernard Di Gregorio, viola; Tido Janssen, cello

Intermission

Böhme, Oskar - Soirée de St. Petersburg, Op. 23

Wiff Rudd, trumpet; Erin Brooker-Miller, harp

Schumann, Robert - Adagio and Allegro, Op. 70

Tido Janssen, cello; Stacy Kwak, piano

Tansman, Alexandre - Septet (1932)

Valerie Watts, flute; Shawn Welk, oboe; Elizandro Garcia-Montoya, clarinet; Nicolasa Kuster, bassoon; Bernard Di Gregorio, viola; Walter Gray, cello