THE HOLIDAYS WITH FRISSON

CLASSICAL PROGRAMS-SAMPLES BELOW

PROGRAM 1 – 6 musicians - violin, viola, cello, piano, oboe, flute

Dame Ethel Smyth – Piano Trio (1880)

Britten or Mozart – Quartet for oboe and strings

Intermission

Sibelius – String Trio in G Minor

Beethoven – Serenade for string trio in D Major, Op. 8

 

PROGRAM 2 - 6 musicians – 2 violins, viola, cello, double bass, oboe

Gustav Holst – Three Pieces for oboe and strings

Mozart – Quartet for oboe and strings K. 370 (or Britten Phantasy quartet ob/strings)

Florence Price – The Secret Garden 

Intermission

Antonin Dvorak - String Quintet No. 2 in G Major, Op. 77

 

PROGRAM 3 – 4 musicians – violin, viola, cello, oboe

17th Century Fantasias by Purcell, Lupo, and Gibbons

Mozart – Quartet for oboe and strings (or Britten Phantasy quartet ob/strings)

Cole Porter – Suite

Intermission

Piazzolla – Oblivion

Dohnanyi – Serenade for string trio in C Major

 

PROGRAM 4 – 9 musicians – violin, viola, cello, double bass, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn

Rossini – Overture to Italian in Algiers

Martinu – Nonet for strings and winds

Intermission

August Walter – Octet for strings and winds (1863) (or Spohr Nonet)

Gershwin – Preludes for clarinet and strings

Encore: Bolero for nonet

 

PROGRAM 5 – 9 musicians, 4 violins, 2 violas, 2 cellos, oboe

Richard Strauss – Sextet from Capriccio

Handel-Halverson – Passacaglia

Bellini – Concerto for oboe and strings 

Intermission

Mendelssohn – Octet for strings Op. 20

Piazzolla - Oblivion