Join pianist Meagan Milatz, violinist Alexander Read, cellist Julia MacLaine, clarinetist Stéphane Fontaine, and horn player Louis-Pierre Bergeron for an enchanting Café-Concert! Their program of early works by Ralph Vaughan Williams and Thomas Dunhill evokes the charm of the turn of the century—like a stroll through a beautiful English garden. But listen closely… what is that ominous Wind rising from the mainland?

Warm tones, vivid textures, lush harmonies… this unusual blend of strings, winds, and piano forms a perfectly balanced little ecosystem in the hands of these five outstanding artists

Featuring:

• Meagan Milatz—Piano

• Louis-Pierre Bergeron—Horn

• Julia MacLaine —Cello

• Alexander Read —Violin

• Stéphane Fontaine —Clarinet

Programme

Thomas Dunhill (1877-1946)

Quintet in Eb for Violin, Cello, Clarinet, Horn, and Piano, Op.3  (1898)

I- Allegro ma non troppo con Variazione

II- Allegretto

III- Prestissimo

Franz Schreker (1878-1934)

Der Wind, after a poem by Grete Wiesenthal, for Violin, Cello, Clarinet, Horn, and Piano  (1909)

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)

Quintet in D for Violin, Cello, Clarinet, Horn, and Piano  (1898)

I- Allegro moderato 

II- Intermezzo. Allegretto

III- Andantino

IV- Finale. Allegro molto