For the final concert in Chamber Music Today’s festival, we travel eastward to experience the rich harmonic flavors of Bohemia: specifically, Hungary and the Czech Republic. Antonín Dvorak’s jovial American-influenced Sonatina for Violin and Piano opens the program, followed by Ernő Dohnanyi’s explosively virtuosic Serenade in C Major.  The final stop of our Cultural Odyssey is Bedřich Smetana’s characteristically grand, poignant, Piano Trio in g minor, written in memoriam, following the death of his 4-year old daughter.

DVOŘÁK: Sonatina for Violin and Piano in G major, Op. 100
MARTINU: Three Madrigals for Violin and Viola, H. 313
DOHNÁNYI: Serenade in C major for Violin, Viola, and Cello, Op. 10
SMETANA: Trio in G minor for Piano, Violin, and Cello, Op. 15
 

Arnaud Sussmann, Violin
Wu Han, Piano
David Finckel, Cello
Pierre Lapointe, Viola