Festival Chamber Ensemble

Mozart: Violin Sonata in A major K 526

Schumann: Piano Quintet in E Flat Major Op. 44

Charles Sewart & Gillian Secret - Violins

Robert Secret - Viola

Julian Metzger - Cello

Deborah Shah - Piano

Mozart’s A major Violin Sonata, written between Eine kleine Nachtmusik and Don Giovanni, is a virtuosic duo for piano and violin, with both parts equally demanding. Its final movement is hailed as one of Mozart’s finest rondos.

Schumann’s Piano Quintet is widely considered his greatest chamber work—“a piano concerto with string quartet rather than orchestra” (Willard J. Hertz).

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