Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players – Bizarre Endings

Photo Credit: Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players

Performance by

	Chelsea Wang piano Lun Li violin

Mieczysław KARLOWICZ  Impromptu ▪ 1895
   ▪ intimate lyrical warmth—for violin and piano

František KOCŽWARA  The Battle of Prague ▪ circa 1788
   ▪ immensely popular historical military sonata by the Bohemian composer and vagabond of sorts, who died under the most unusual circumstances

Enrique GRANADOS  Spanish Dance No. 5 “Andaluza” ▪ 1890
   ▪ la crema de la crema of his 12 Danzas Españolas—arranged by Béla Kovács for clarinet and piano from the original for solo piano

Henry PURCELL  Chacony in G minor ▪ 1678
   ▪ by England’s finest composer before Elgar—arranged in 1948 (and revised in 1963) for string quartet by Benjamin Britten, who admired the beauty and clarity of the Baroque master’s music

Guillaume LEKEU  Mèditation in G minor ▪ 1887
   ▪ intense, prayerful lyricism at age 17 by Franck’s most promising pupil—a calm, sacred atmosphere spreads by a rich, flowing harmonic dialogue among the 4 string voices of the quartet

Ernest CHAUSSON  Piano Trio in G minor Op. 3 ▪ 1881
   ▪ opulent, dynamic cyclic pièce de resistance