Sketches

Joaquín Turina paints Seville in the loose, atmospheric strokes of a nocturnal scene rather than a formal argument, while Johannes Brahms set his C minor quartet aside for twenty years before returning to complete what he’d only sketched in the depths of his devotion to Clara Schumann. Most striking of all, Alfred Schnittke built an entire companion work from seventeen surviving bars Gustav Mahler left behind as a sixteen year old, a fragment abandoned and then, a century later, finally given its ending.

Program

Joaquín Turina Quartet in A minor for Piano, Violin, Viola, and Cello, Op. 67

Alfred Schnittke Piano Quartet

Gustav Mahler Piano Quartet in A minor

Johannes Brahms Piano Quartet No. 3 in C minor

Artists

John Vaida, violin

Amy Iwazumi, viola

Bryan Hayslett, cello

Bin Yu Sanford, piano

This event is sponsored, in part, by a grant from the armature and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.