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Vida Guitar Quartet
El Amor Brujo
To celebrate our 35th season we’re kicking things off with an Andalusia-spiced program of Bizet’s Carmen Suite, Turina’s Prayer of the Bullfighter and de Falla’s remarkably beautiful and fiery El amor brujo - Love, the Magician. Savor the sounds of the Vida Guitar Quartet, comprised of four of England’s finest guitarists. As Gramophone says, “There’s only one word for it: magic.”
PostClassical Ensemble
Interpreting Shostakovich
Featuring Dmitri Berlinsky, violin; Natalia Khoma, cello; and George Vatchnadze, piano
Tonight we celebrate the music of Shostakovich as part of a three-week DC-area Shostakovich Festival offering the fullest retrospective of the composer ever mounted in the US. In collaboration with the PostClassical Ensemble, Dumbarton Concerts hosts world-renowned Russian artists and members of the PostClassical Ensemble performing the Piano Trio No. 2, the Sonata for Cello and Piano, and the Largo from the Chamber Symphony for Strings, Op. 110a. Eminent Shostakovich scholars – including Solomon Volkov and British film-maker Tony Palmer – and the artists will offer their unique insights into the man and the composer who was a singular phenomenon in the world of classical music.
The Barnes and Hampton Celtic Consort
Saturday December 1 at 4pm
Sunday December 2 at 4pm
Saturday December 8 at 4pm and 8pm
Sunday December 9 at 4pm
This timeless music, a lovely weave of the delicate sounds of the Celtic harp, lute, pipes, bodhran, flutes and recorders is perfect for the many moods of this season: Christmas, the winter solstice or any time the snow sparkles on a clear, cold night. Join our candlelit Celtic Christmas celebration that goes “down as smoothly as a mug of hot cider,” according to The Washington Post.
Saturday January 26 at 8pm
East meets West enticingly tonight as the prize-winning Lark Quartet returns to our stage with a captivating performance of Janacek’s “Intimate Letters” quartet and Daron Aric Hagen’s enchanting Genji, a concerto for koto and string quartet based on one of the greatest works of Japanese literature, the 11th century The Tale of Genji. And in celebration of our 35th anniversary, Lark also brings us musical birthday wishes from Haydn, Beethoven, Mozart and others in Peter Heidrich’s joyous Variations on Happy Birthday.
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Saturday February 9 at 8pm
“Once upon a midnight dreary…” begins Edgar Allan Poe’s Gothic poem and tonight you will surely yield to its spell in composer Nicholas White’s world premiere of The Raven, exquisitely sung by the newly formed Raven Consort. And then this enticing program of music for voices and strings takes a heavenward direction with Pergolesi’s glorious Stabat Mater.
Saturday February 23 at 8pm
Ken Peplowski, one of the greatest clarinetists living and described by The New York Times as “The man is magic,” is on the bill tonight backed by the Chuck Redd Trio with Tommy Cecil on bass and Robert Redd on piano. Not only is Ken a brilliant clarinetist, he’s also a charismatic entertainer, delighting audiences for over 30 years with his warmth, wit, and musicianship. Tonight the quartet will play selections from the great American songbook, jazz standards, and a shot of bossa nova to help keep the winter chill away.
Saturday March 16 at 8pm
Tonight, meet one of the most impressive and energetic ensembles in the country – the Carpe Diem String Quartet. Racking up accolades and awards across the US, this charming quartet makes their Dumbarton debut with Beethoven’s Quartet in F Major, Op. 59, No. 1, Hugo Wolf’s delicious miniature – the Italian Serenade, and their most requested piece, Fiddle Suite Montana composed by quartet violist Korine Fujiwara.
Saturday April 6 at 8pm
These seventeen young, Boston-based musicians are headed for the highest ranks of today’s new generation of ensembles. Hailed by The Boston Globe as “brilliant, thrilling, and intrepid,” the self-conducted A Far Cry brings our 35th anniversary season to an exhilarating close with Mozart’s Eine Kleine Nacht Music, Piazzolla’s Oblivion, Bates' Icarian Rhapsody and Tchaikovsky’s gorgeous Serenade for Strings in C Major. |
