The Beatitudes
Piano Quintet
at
RG | NY
Sunday, May 12th, 2024, 5:00pm
Music by
Beethoven, Shostakovich, Schubert & Martynov
Ulysses String Quartet
Paolo Bartolani, piano
We're kicking off the Rites of Spring concert season with a new partnership with RG | New York Vineyard!
It's an exciting event of music, spring celebration and appreciation of the North Fork agricultural scene. Doors open at 4pm. You will receive a glass of wine and can walk through the vineyard to enjoy the natural landscape.
Attendees can also come earlier at the vineyard for a tasting flight or some wine + bites ahead of the performance. RG | NY normal business hours is open from 11am to 5pm.
Description
The Sunrise Quartet, which opens this program, represents human energy and feeling alive on earth. Then we present Shostakovich's Piano Quintet in which the daily difficulties and struggles of the human condition are highlighted. We continue with Beethoven's Heiliger from the quartet op. 132 which is about feeling so bad, almost on the brink of death, but then healing and coming back to life. Beethoven was at the end of his life when he wrote this quartet and was thinking a lot about mortality. Schubert's "Death and the Maiden" follows with a thrilling race to the finish line and Death carries the maiden away at the end of the movement. We are transported on a chariot by Florence Price's "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" to the afterlife, and finally reach the bliss with Vladimir Martynov's extraordinary piece.
