VOICES: Bach, Haydn, Mozart

Jenna Sherry & Mayumi Sargent, violins

Elizabeth Smalt, viola

Lucile Perrin, cello

The string quartet is made up of four instruments—four musical voices with unique personalities interacting as individuals with the ability come together into a whole, a social microcosm. Nowhere is the interaction between individuals and group more richly played out than in the musical form of the fugue, a mischievous canon (think “Row, row, row your boat”; each voice sings the same melody at a different moment), which is also part ritual and part rhetorical exercise.

Join violinists Jenna Sherry and Mayumi Sargent, violist Elizabeth Smalt, and cellist Lucile Perrin for a program on historical instruments exploring exceptional fugues by Bach, Haydn, and Mozart and the joyful musical moments that occur when four musical voices come together.

Program:

Bach: Fugue in A minor from the Well Tempered Clavier Book II BWV 889

Haydn: Fugue from the String Quartet Op. 20 no. 5

Mozart: Quartet in G major, K. 387 "Spring"

I. Allegro vivace assai

II. Menuetto

III. Andante cantabile

Intermezzo: Bach: Fugue from the Well Tempered Clavier Book II BWV 892

IV. Molto allegro

About the musicians:

https://birdfootfestival.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/BF21_program_2021-03-25.pdf

Note:

The music featured in this concert will be explored in the Birdfoot Festival Backstage event of the same name on 11 April.

More information here: 

Voices: Haydn & Mozart - Birdfoot Festival

Thank you:

Warmest thanks to Hof Meermansburg Leiden for allowing us to use their beautiful space for this concert. www.meermansburg.nl