MARLBORO-Marlboro Music concludes its 75th anniversary season the weekend of Aug. 14–16 with three final programs comprising 10 works, including the traditional Beethoven “Choral Fantasy,” with co-Artistic Director Mitsuko Uchida at the piano.
More than 30 resident artists will perform across the closing weekend, marking the culmination of a season celebrating 75 years of Marlboro’s service to chamber music and musicians.
The weekend opens on Friday with Villa-Lobos’s Trio for oboe, clarinet, and bassoon, W182—a work that draws on the Brazilian composer’s fascination with folk color and instrumental timbre — performed by Spencer Rubin, Yejin Ahn, and Guilhaume Santana.
Robert Schumann’s Piano Trio No. 3 in G minor, Op. 110, follows, featuring pianist Ieva Jokubaviciute, violinist Meesun Hong Coleman, and cellist Nagyeom Jang. The evening closes with Dvořák’s Piano Trio in F minor, Op. 65, B. 130, one of the composer’s most turbulent and dramatically charged chamber works, performed by pianist Cynthia Raim, violinist Yebin Yoo, and cellist Annie Jacobs-Perkins.
Saturday’s concert begins with Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F major, BWV 1046. The most varied of the six Concertos, it will performed by oboists Frank Rosenwein, Alexander Mayer, and Spencer Rubin, bassoonist Duncan Henry, horn players Colby Kleven and Alberto Menéndez Escribano, violinists Coleman, Masha Lakisova, and Laurel Gagnon, violist Brian Isaacs, cellist Laura Navasardian, double bassist Tobias Vigneau, and harpsichordist Juho Pohjonen.
The program continues with Brahms’s “Vier ernste Gesänge,” Op. 121, the composer’s final vocal work, written in the shadow of his own declining health and the death of his lifelong friend Clara Schumann, performed by bass-baritone Evan Luca Gray and pianist Lydia Brown.
The program concludes with Schubert’s String Quartet in G major, D. 887 — his last completed quartet, an expansive and harmonically restless work written the year before his death — performed by Isaacs, violinists Gabrielle Després and Stephanie Zyzak, and cellist Macintyre Taback.
Sunday’s program opens with Janáček’s “Mládì,” performed by Mayer, Kleven, Ahn, Santana, flutist Joshua Smith, and clarinetist Jonathan Leibovitz. Ravel’s “Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé” follows, performed by mezzo-soprano Veronica Siebert and nine instrumentalists.
Preceding intermission is Britten’s String Quartet No. 2 in C major, Op. 36, with violinists Després and Gagnon, violist Emad Zolfaghari, and cellist Marie Bitlloch. The season concludes with Beethoven’s “Choral Fantasy,” performed by Uchida and the Marlboro Festival Orchestra and Chorus.
Tickets ($20–$40) are available for Friday’s and Saturday’s concerts and may be purchased at marlboromusic.org or by calling the Marlboro Box Office at 802-258-9331. Sunday’s performance is sold out. A waiting list is maintained for returned tickets. For more information, contact the Marlboro reception desk at 802-254-2394 or info@marlboromusic.org.
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