Yo-Yo Ma
Emanuel Ax

CELEBRATING CHOPIN AND SCHUMANN AT 200

Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage (Seating Chart)
Friday, January 29, 2010 at 8 PM

Program

Program Notes

The Artists

This bicentenary celebration features Romantic music for cello and piano, written by two great pianist-composers. But the dark tone of the instrument suits their music perfectly. The celebrated performers also present a searching new work by one of the most thoughtful and passionate composers living today.

The Program

Yo-Yo Ma, Cello
Emanuel Ax, Piano

SCHUMANN	Adagio and Allegro, Op. 70
SCHUMANN	Five Pieces in Folk Style, Op. 102
PETER LIEBERSON	Remembering Schumann (NY Premiere, co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall)
CHOPIN	Polonaise brillante in C Major, Op. 3
SCHUMANN	Fantasiestücke, Op. 73
CHOPIN	Cello Sonata in G Minor, Op. 65
Encores:
BRAHMS	Adagio from Violin Sonata No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 108
Program is approximately 2 hours, including one intermission

Please note that if you purchase stage seating, you must arrive one hour before concert time. There will be no late seating.

Listen In!

Pianist Emanuel Ax talks about his teenage years spent sneaking into Carnegie Hall to hear rehearsals and sleeping on the sidewalk for a chance at Horowitz tickets. He also recalls a few lessons he learned about Beethoven—lessons a performer might not know from merely reading a score.

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