Chamber Music Today’s tour begins in Baroque Italy, opening the season with Antonio Vivaldi’s lively Concerto for Lute and Strings in D Major, including its highly recognizable, pastoral Largo movement. Leaping forward fifty years, we will encounter a Classical Italian composer’s interpretation of an extraordinary night in Spain, through Luigi Boccherini’s Quintet, “La Musica notturna delle strade di Madrid”, and then we conclude our sojourn in Italy with the charming virtuosity of Niccolò Pagannini’s Terzetto Concertante. The Spanish portion of our program begins after intermission, with a short set of solo guitar works, featuring the Grammy-Award winning guitarist Jason Vieaux. Manuel de Falla’s sultry suite of popular Spanish melodies, arranged for violin and piano, follows, and our program finally concludes in twentieth century America, with Aaron Jay Kernis’ pulsating 100 Greatest Dance Hits for Guitar, Two Violins, Viola, and Cello.

VIVALDI: Concerto for Lute, Strings and Continuo in D major, RV 93
BOCCHERINI: Quintet in C major for Two Violins, Viola, and Two Cellos, G. 324
PAGANINI: Terzetto concertante in D major for Viola, Guitar, and Cello
FALLA: Suite populaire españole for Violin and Piano (arr. Kochanski)
ALBÉNIZ: “Rumores de la Caleta (malagueña)” from Recuerdos de viaje, Op. 71
TÁRREGA: Capricho árabe for Guitar
ALBÉNIZ: "Torre Bermeja, serenata" from 12 piezas características, Op. 92
KERNIS: 100 Greatest Dance Hits for Guitar, Two Violins, Viola, and Cello

Arnaud Sussmann, Violin
Jason Vieaux, Guitar
Wu Han, Piano
Escher String Quartet