Organization

Winds of France - Concert

Presented by Music@Menlo at Menlo-Atherton Performing Arts Center

February 12, 2012

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, France became the compositional epicenter of chamber music written for wind instruments. The timbrally colorful combination of the instruments proved irresistible for many of France's most compelling musical voices. Join pianist Alessio Bax and virtuosic wind players from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center -- Tara Helen O'Connor, flute; Stephen Taylor, oboe; David Shifrin, clarinet; Peter Kolkay, bassoon; and Radovan Vlatkovi?,

Jupiter String Quartet - Concert

Presented by Music@Menlo at Menlo-Atherton Performing Arts Center

April 29, 2012

The venerated English conductor Jeffrey Tate once said, "The most perfect expression of human behavior is the string quartet." The Jupiter String Quartet, one of America's most exciting young chamber ensembles, returns to Music@Menlo for this special afternoon of masterworks from the string quartet repertoire.

In addition to Haydn's delightful F Major String Quartet, op. 77, no. 2, and Prokofiev's Second String Quartet, the program features the colossal and

Darknesse Visible - Inon Barnatan, Pianist

Presented by Music@Menlo at Menlo-Atherton Performing Arts Center

October 2, 2011

As part of Music@Menlo's second annual Winter Series, the virtuosic young pianist Inon Barnatan hailed by The New Yorker as "a player of uncommon sensitivity," returns  for a recital program that explores the palpable awareness of what lies beneath the music. Darknesse Visible, a seductive program of works for solo piano, includes a work by one of the most exciting composers of the twentieth century, Thomas Adès. The program also features a

Concert Program VI - Farewell

Presented by Music@Menlo at Menlo-Atherton Performing Arts Center

August 13, 2011

Johannes Brahms’s death in 1897 signaled the end of a musical era, one born of the Viennese Classical tradition of Haydn and Mozart, nurtured by Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, and Schumann, and ultimately embodied by the uncompromising quality and ravishing expressivity of Brahms’s finest music. At the end of his life, Brahms grew poignantly aware of his music and his era fading into history as the cultural landscape gave way to ever more radical new ideas. In the soulful

Concert Program VI - Farewell

Presented by Music@Menlo at Menlo School

August 12, 2011

Johannes Brahms’s death in 1897 signaled the end of a musical era, one born of the Viennese Classical tradition of Haydn and Mozart, nurtured by Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, and Schumann, and ultimately embodied by the uncompromising quality and ravishing expressivity of Brahms’s finest music. At the end of his life, Brahms grew poignantly aware of his music and his era fading into history as the cultural landscape gave way to ever more radical new ideas. In the soulful

Music in Autumn...The Late Works of Brahms led by Ara Guzelimian - Encounter IV

Presented by Music@Menlo at Menlo School

August 11, 2011

A pensive melancholy pervades much of the music from Brahms’s later years, full of wistfulness at the passage of time. At the same time, there is a rich wisdom and an emotional depth in the light and shadow of these works. The season’s final Encounter, led by Ara Guzelimian, will explore a number of Brahms’s late piano and chamber works and examine the question of Brahms’s complex legacy: was his music the last blossoming at the twilight of the nineteenth-century

Menahem Pressler - Carte Blanche Concert IV

Presented by Music@Menlo at Menlo-Atherton Performing Arts Center

August 10, 2011

The Carte Blanche Concert series concludes with former Beaux Arts Trio member and legendary pianist Menahem Pressler’s eagerly anticipated return to Music@Menlo. Among classical music’s most distinguished artists for more than fifty years, Menahem Pressler has deeply impacted our perception and understanding of the solo piano and chamber music literature through his myriad performances and recordings of the complete repertoire, from the Classical period to the music of our time.