August 4

Week 11 features two very different early 20th century works, with composers expressing themselves in two very different means. In Ravel’s 1921 Sonata for Violin and Cello, two melodic instruments explore their mutual and individualistic sonorities. Violinist Leila Josefowicz and cellist Paul Watkins join forces in performing Ravel’s entrancing composition, which he wrote in the aftermath of World War I and dedicated in memory of Debussy. Dohnányi’s stunningly inventive and heroic Sextet, performed by an ensemble of Festival musicians that includes clarinetist David Shifrin and Berlin Philharmonic principal horn Stefan Dohr, brings the program to a dramatic close.