21st annual Fredericksburg Chamber Music Festival

January 26, 2009, 9:00 pm

In 1830, Mikhail Glinka took a three-year health sabbatical to Italy, where he met Donizetti and Bellini. Their brilliant and sentimental opera arias inspired Glinka's Pathetique Trio in D minor, which opens the second of our three programs from the 21st annual Fredericksburg Chamber Music Festival. Also on the program is Franz Schubert's only string quintet, augmented not by the customary second viola, but by a second cello. Composed just two months before his death in 1828, the quintet is considered an apex in the classical chamber repertoire.

Featured performances:

• Mikhail Glinka: Pathetique Trio in D minor (1832)
  for clarinet, bassoon, and piano
  
  Alexander Fiterstein, clarinet
  Kathleen Reynolds, bassoon
  Michele Levin, piano
• Franz Schubert: String Quintet in C Major, D. 956
  
  Bayla Keyes, violin
  Peter Zazofsky, violin
  Steven Ansell, viola
  Michael Reynolds, cello