Considered the founder of Czech music, Smetana’s works are imbued with the feeling and directness of Czech folksong and dance. This program features character pieces for violin and piano, and for piano four-hands (especially rich and colorful on our 19th-century Bösendorfer piano), along with Dvorak’s great Piano Quartet in E-flat—one of Dvorak’s warmest and most emotionally intense works.
| Bedrich Smetana | 'From the Homeland’, for Violin and Piano |
| Dances for Piano | |
| Antonin Dvorak | 'From the Bohemian Forests’, for Piano Four-hands |
| 'Silent Woods' for Cello and Piano | |
| Quartet in E-flat for Strings and Piano | |
| With 1852 Bösendorfer piano and original string instruments |
Brian Connelly
piano
Michael Kannen
cello
Kimi Kawashima
piano
Max Mandel
viola
Stefan Wagner
violin
