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Spoleto Chamber Music Festival
Wednesdays, 11am
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Lisa Simeone hosts this series of programs commemorating Charles Wadsworth's
farewell season as the Artistic Director at Spoleto with a collection
of audience favorites indroduced by Wadsworth from the stage of the Memminger
Auditorium in historic Charleston, SC.
The Spoleto Chamber Music Series showcases both emerging and celebrated
soloists in programs of new and familiar works. In presenting world-class
chamber music, Spoleto features works ranging in style from baroque to
contemporary, with works by such composers as Bach, Mozart, Handel, Dvorak,
Saint Saens, Poulanc and Shostakovich.
September 29
Spoleto Chamber Music Series Director Charles Wadsworth's farewell
season continues with another program of favorites: Brazilian composer
Heitoir Villa-Lobos' Jet Whistle performed by Tara Helen O’Connor,
flute, and Chris Costanza, cello; Poulenc's Sonata for Clarinet &
Piano; Wadsworth's own Song Without Words; and the ever-charming
Sextet from Capriccio performed by the St. Lawrence String Quartet,
Hsin-Yun Huang, viola, and Alisa Weilerstein, cello.
VILLA-LOBOS: Jet Whistle
Tara Helen O’Connor, flute
Chris Costanza, cello
POULENC: Sonata for Clarinet & Piano
José Franch-Ballester, clarinet
Charles Wadsworth, piano
CHARLES WADSWORTH: Song Without Words
Courtenay Budd, soprano
Chee-Yun, violin
Tara Helen O’Connor, flute
Charles Wadsworth, piano
RICHARD STRAUSS: Sextet from Capriccio
Hsin-Yun Huang, viola
Alisa Weilerstein, cello
The St. Lawrence String Quartet
October 6
Pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet, a veteran of Spoleto summers past,
returns to Charleston to pay homage to Artistic Director Charles Wadsworth
at a special gala 80th Birthday Concert for Spoleto’s venerable
“Chamber Music Man.” Thibaudet joins the St. Lawrence String
Quartet in a performance of the concert centerpiece: The Quintet for
Piano and Strings by César Franck. The gala concert also features
a performance of Bach's Double Violin Concerto performed by incoming
Chamber Music Series Director Geoff Nuttall and his wife, violinist Livia
Sohn, and a host of Spoleto Chamber musicians; Ravel's Pavane
performed by rising star Hsin-yun Huang (viola), with Charles Wadsworth
himself at the piano.
BACH: Concerto for Two Violins, strings, and continuo in D minor, BWV
1043
Geoff Nuttall, violin
Livia Sohn, violin
Musicians of the Spoleto Festival USA
RAVEL: Pavane
Hsin-yun Huang, viola
Charles Wadsworth, piano
FRANCK: Quintet for Piano and Strings in F Minor
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
The St. Lawrence String Quartet
October 13
Charles Wadsworth's Last Waltz: He comes out to the Memminger Auditorium
stage to introduce his final concert as the Artistic Director for Spoleto
Chamber Music. Wadsworth has been associated with chamber music presentations
at either the “original” Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto,
Italy, or at the Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston since 1960. One of
the constants has been a season-ending performance of Schubert’s
summary chamber work: the magnificent String Quintet in C. Wadsworth’s
farewell serenade is performed by the St. Lawrence String Quartet, whose
first violinist Geoff Nuttall, will succeed Wadsworth at Spoleto, with
guest cellist Alisa Weilerstein. Listen, too, for a special “flashback”
performance featuring a young teenaged violinist at Spoleto named…Joshua
Bell!
MOZART: Quartet in F for Oboe & Strings, K. 370: I
Douglas Boyd, oboe
Joshua Bell, violin
Scott Nickrenz, viola
Carter Brey, cello
SCHUBERT: String Quintet in C, D. 956
St. Lawrence String Quartet
Alisa Weilerstein, cello
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