What could celebrate our 20th anniversary more perfectly than a performance of Felix Mendelssohn’s exhilarating Octet, opus 20? We pair this famous piece of chamber music with a new Octet, “Miktam 1,” commissioned for this year from Richmond’s own Donovan Williams. And we celebrate the 150th anniversary years of composers Maurice Ravel and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor with original works from these iconic composers and spectacular arrangements by pianist and composer Sahun Sam Hong.
Program:
Maurice Ravel, Allegro moderato – très doux from String Quartet in F major
Samuel Coleridge Taylor, Prelude from Fantasiestücke, Op. 5
Claude Debussy (arr. Sahun Sam Hong), Des pas sur la neige from Préludes
Ravel (arr. Hong), Alborada del Gracioso from “Miroirs”
Ravel (arr. Hong), Blues from Violin Sonata No. 2 in G major
Miles Davis (arr. Hong), “Blue in Green”
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, Rondo: Allegro vivace from String Quartet No. 1 “Calvary”
Donovan Williams, String Octet, “Miktam 1” (world premiere)
Felix Mendelssohn, Octet E major, opus 20