July 22
Prokofiev & Tchaikovsky
Join us for two Russian masterworks performed at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. Prokofiev’s Flute Sonata, from 1943, features a virtuoso interpretation by flutist Tara Helen O’Connor in collaboration with pianist Ran Dank. To close out the program, the Dover Quartet plays a landmark composition by Tchaikovsky, the Quartet in D Major, Op. 11, whose famous second movement was said to move the great Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy to tears.
Sergei Prokofiev
Sonata in D Major for Flute and Piano, Op. 94
Tara Helen O’Connor, flute; Ran Dank, piano
Piotr Iilyich Tchaikovsky
String Quartet in D Major, Op. 11
Dover Quartet (Joel Link, Bryan Lee, violin; Julianne Lee, viola; Camden Shaw, cello)