the New Century Chamber Orchestra with Daniel Hope and Sebastian Knauer at First Congregational Church, January 25, 2018

NCCO presents a Mozart Birthday Celebration featuring Daniel Hope and Sebastian Knauer
First Congregational Church
2345 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA 94704-2201 USA
8:00 PM, Thursday, January 25, 2018

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• Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 3
• Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23, KV 488 (Menahem Pressler: soloist on Jan. 27, Sebastian Knauer on Jan. 25, 26, and 28)
• Mozart: Adagio and Fugue
• Mozart: Symphony No. 29 (with strings, wind instruments, and timpani).

All works tonight by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791), in celebration of his 262nd Birthday!

[8:02 PM lights down, welcome by Philip Wilder, band out]
[8:05 PM words about the program from Daniel Hope]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791): Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major, K.488 (1786), featuring Sebastian Knauer

1. [8:08 PM] Allegro
2. [8:19 PM] Adagio
3. [8:25 PM] Allegro assai
   [work ends 8:34 PM]
   
   [Daniel Hope talks about the next piece on the program]

[8:38 PM tuning]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791): Violin Concerto No. 3 in G Major, K.216 (1775) featuring Daniel Hope

1. [8:38 PM] Allegro
2. [8:47 PM] Adagio
3. [8:54 PM] Rondeau: Allegro
   [set ends 9:01 PM]

[9:24 PM lights down, band entrance & tuning]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791): Symphony No. 29 in A Major, K.201/186a (1774)

1. [9:25 PM] Allegro moderato
2. [9:32 PM] Andante
3. [9:39 PM] Menuetto
4. [9:42 PM] Allegro con spirito
   [show ends 9:48 PM; applause, all out after a minute or so]

New Century Chamber Orchestra

• Hrabba Atladottir: first violin;
• Robin Bonnell: acting principal cello;
• Michelle Djokic: acting principal cello;
• Jenny Douglass: viola;
• Jory Fankuchen: second violin;
• Eric Gaenslen: cello;
• Candace Guirao: principal second violin;
• Dawn Harms: first violin, associate concertmaster;
• Anna Kruger: principal viola;
• Michelle Kwon: cello;
• Anthony Manzo: contrabass;
• Robin Mayforth: first violin;
• Emily Onderdonk: viola;
• Deborah Tien Price: second violin;
• Evan Price: second violin;
• Cassandra Lynne Richburg: viola;
• Iris Stone: first violin;
• Michael Yokas: second violin.

• Daniel Hope: violin, concertmaster, artistic partner;
• Sebastian Knauer: piano.

• Eric Achen: horn;
• Jesse Barrett: oboe;
• Mathew Boyles: clarinet;
• Meredith Brown: French horn;
• Michelle Caimotto: flute;
• Dan MacNeil: basson;
• Stacey Pelinka: flute;
• Jeannie Psomas: clarinet;
• Robyn Smith: oboe.

Knauer was fine in his role as opening soloist, but honestly, I wasn't really all there … the piece passed in one ear and out the other like a nice bit of chamber fluff.

In the next work, Daniel Hope turned in a truly nifty cadenza at the end of the first movement, and an equally interesting, if less fiery, one at the end of the second movement. Way cool! Those woke me out of my daze!

Still feeling pretty low from this year's bout with the flu/cold – sat through this show in a sort of daze, hoping I wouldn't burst out in an uncontrollable fit of coughing. Didn't figure out until the start of the second set that tonight's show only had one more piece programmed – without my glasses, I'd concatenated tonight's program onto tomorrow's, and thought we were less than half done at that point. What a dummy, eh?

Of course, it didn't help my confusion that the printed program had a typo, indicating that Knauer would be playing on K.201, but there was no piano onstage when the lights dimmed to start the second set. Hoy hoy! Whassa matta wit youze guys?

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Lou Fancher posted a nice promo article at SFCV.

Back to the previous event! ☸ Up to the 2018 yearbox! ☸ Up to the 2018 event list! ☸ On to the next event!