Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players – Drawn to Leipzig

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Performance by

Felix MENDELSSOHN  Violin Concerto in D minor ▪ 1822
   ▪ emotional intensity and bravura at age 13

Christian August SINDING  Serenade No. 1 in G Major Op. 5 ▪ 1902
   ▪ a triumph of his stunning tone colors and distinct melodic sophistication, with influences of Liszt and Wagner, and blessed with not one but 2 Andante movements of affecting beauty—for 2 violins and piano

SCHUMANN  Arabeske Op. 18 ▪ 1839
   ▪ exquisite poetic miniature—for solo piano

Carl REINECKE  Piano Quintet in A Major Op. 83 ▪ 1866
   ▪ influenced by Schumann, a mysterious beginning modulates into expressive Romanticism, demonstrating his mastery of tonal effects—by the longest-serving music director of the Leipzig Gewandhaus (from 1860 to 1895)