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Biava Quartet (photo by Michael Markham)

Pro Musica Hebraica presents: The Biava Quartet: An Evening of French Jewish Music

Pro Musica Hebraica is devoted to presenting Jewish classical music, much of it believed lost, forgotten, or rarely performed, in a concert hall setting. The award-winning Biava Quartet returns to play a program of French Jewish music.

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An Evening of French Jewish Music
"A performance rich in vehemence and delicacy. Their interplay claimed extra-sensory precision."
--Donald Rosenberg, Cleveland Plain Dealer

Biava Quartet:
Austin Hartman and Hyunsu Ko, violin 
Mary Persin, viola 
Gwendolyn Krosnick, cello
And Special Guests Margaret Mezzacappa, mezzo-soprano,
and Konstantin Soukhovetski, piano


The award-winning Biava Quartet, the Lisa Arnhold Quartet in Residence at the Juilliard School and Quartet in Residence at Brevard Music Center, returns to the Kennedy Center with an all-new program exploring the rich legacy of Jewish music in modern France. Joined by special guests mezzo-soprano Margaret Mezzacappa and pianist Konstantin Soukhovetski, they will feature several works by Darius Milhaud, including his quartet based on his own Provençal Jewish musical heritage, a wartime string quartet by Alexandre Tansman, Maurice Ravel's famed Jewish songs, and Charles-Valentin Alkan's remarkable Chopinesque Hebrew prayers, newly arranged for voice and strings.  Performance Timing: Part One - 45 min.; Intermission - 15 min.; Part Two - 40 min.


 

Program and Notes

TANSMAN
Quartet No. 5 (1940)
MILHAUD
Études sur des thèmes liturgiques du Comtat Venaissin, Op. 442 (1973)
MILHAUD
Quartet No. 7 in B-flat, Op. 87 (1925)
MILHAUD
La Création du monde, Op. 81
RAVEL
Three Jewish Songs
ALKAN
Trois Anciennes Melodies Juives
ALKAN
Deuxieme Verset du 41 Psaume
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