La Belle Époque

From the streets of Paris to the Hungarian countryside, we begin our second quarter-century with a program of beauty, light, and joie de vivre. Kodaly’s fiddler greets us with wild abandon, Eric Moe transports us to a luminous, glowing past, and Debussy conjures a universe of shifting color and sensual dreams. Chausson’s piano quartet is a one-of-a-kind masterpiece of elegance, warmth, and endless mélodie.

PROGRAM:

Lili Boulanger, Nocturne et cortège for violin & piano
Eric Moe, Frozen Hours Melt Melodiously into the Past for flute, clarinet, string trio & piano
Zoltán Kodály, Duo for violin & cello, Op. 7
Claude Debussy, Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé for soprano & piano
Ernest Chausson, Piano Quartet in A Major, Op. 30