Winds of France

February 12, 2012

4:00 p.m., The Center for Performing Arts at Menlo-Atherton
Tickets: $50/$45 adult; $25/$20 student

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, France became the compositional epicenter of chamber music written for wind instruments. The timbrally colorful combination of the instruments proved irresistible for many of France’s most compelling musical voices. Join these virtuosic wind players from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center as they explore this ravishing, and rarely heard, repertoire.

Maurice Emmanuel (1862–1938)
Sonata for Flute, Clarinet, and Piano, op. 11 (1907)

Yan Maresz (b. 1966)
Circumambulation for Flute (1993, rev. 1996)

Jean Françaix (1912–1997)
Wind Quintet (1948)

Jacques Ibert (1890–1962)
Trois pièces brèves for Wind Quintet (1930)

Francis Poulenc (1899–1963)
Sextet for Piano, Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, and Horn (1932–1939)

Artists Alessio Bax, piano; Tara Helen O’Connor, flute; Stephen Taylor, oboe; David Shifrin, clarinet; Peter Kolkay, bassoon; William Purvis, horn

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