FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
This event is presented by the MIT Office of the Arts and Music and Theater Arts Section as part of the Artfinity Festival and the inaugural season in the Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building. (Press release / Campus map) For concert venue as well as street/garage parking information, please click the “Register for Event” button above. (Photo credit: Rayna Yun Chou)
Gabriel FAURÉ Violin Sonata No. 1 in A major, Op. 13
Jennifer Frautschi, violin; Max Levinson, piano
Charles Martin LOEFFLER Two Rhapsodies for Oboe, Viola, and Piano
Peggy Pearson, oboe; Marcus Thompson, viola; Max Levinson, piano
Gabriel FAURÉ Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 15
Jennifer Frautschi, violin; Marcus Thompson, viola; Raman Ramakrishnan, cello; Max Levinson, piano
Featured musicians
Fauré’s Violin Sonata No. 1 premiered successfully in 1877, earning praise from his mentor Saint-Saëns: “In this sonata you can find everything to tempt a gourmet: new forms, excellent modulations, unusual tone colors, and the use of unexpected rhythms… a magic floats above everything.”
In Loeffler’s Two Rhapsodies, dedicated to two Boston Symphony Orchestra wind players, the composer reimagined his earlier settings of Maurice Rollinat’s symbolist poetry.
Fauré’s Piano Quartet No. 1 features a Brahmsian Allegro, followed by a vibrant Scherzo with string pizzicato highlighting the piano. The melancholic Adagio brightens occasionally before a spirited finale that recalls earlier themes.
