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Eugène Ysaÿe, Sonata for Solo Violin in A minor, Op. 27 No. 2 "Jacques Thibaud"

1. Obsession. Prélude

2. Malinconia

3. Danse des Ombres. Sarabande

4. Les furies

Camille Saint-Saëns, Danse macabre, Op. 40

Martin Butler, Dirty Beasts

1. The Pig

2. The Tummy Beast

3. The Crocodile

Thomas Adès, Catch

Maurice Ravel, La valse (for two pianos)

Franz Schubert, String Quartet No. 14 in D Minor, D. 810, "Death and the Maiden"

1. Allegro

2. Andante con moto

3. Scherzo: Allegro molto

4. Presto

Thomas Adès, Augustin Hadelich, Inon Barnatan, and more perform Ysaÿe, Saint-Saëns, Butler, Adès, Ravel, and Schubert

"Danse Macabre" at La Jolla Music Society

Cast

Augustin Hadelich — Violinist

Augustin Hadelich — Violinist

Inon Barnatan — Pianist

Inon Barnatan — Pianist

Rose Lombardo — Flutist, piccolist

Nicholas Daniel — Oboist

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.

Photo © Marco Borggreve

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