Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players – Great Dames

Photo Credit: Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players

Performance by

William Wolfram piano Stefan Milenkovich violin

Clémence de GRANDVAL  Deux Pièces ▪ circa 1881
   ▪ contrasting late Romantic pieces for clarinet and piano—Invocationand Air Slave

Dora PEJAČEVIĆ  Slavic Sonata in Bb minor Op. 43 ▪ 1917
   ▪ dramatic and emotionally intense tour de force, enriched by Slavic themes and rhythms, complex harmonies, and brilliant interplay between the violin and piano

Dame Ethel SMYTH  String Quintet in E Major Op. 1 ▪ published 1884
   ▪ infused with the spirit of German late Romanticism, the music delights with tuneful melodies, frisky rhythms, a moving Adagio, and lively fugue

Amy BEACH  Piano Quintet in F# minor Op. 67 ▪ 1907
   ▪ an eloquent, exuberant late Romantic quintet, which the Boston Transcript viewed as “rhapsodic…substantial…variously imagined and restlessly expressive”