Vienna Meets Bohemia: Haydn “Jacob’S Ladder” and Dvořak “Dumky” Piano Trios at Bargemusic (Site)

• Haydn Piano Trio No. 41 in E-flat minor, Hob. XV:31, “Jacob’s Ladder”
  • Andante cantabile
  • Allegro (ben moderato)
• Bruch Kol Nidrei for cello and piano, Op. 47
• Dvořak Piano Trio No. 4 in E minor, Op. 90, “Dumky”
  • Lento maestoso — Allegro quasi doppio movimento
  • Poco adagio — Vivace non troppo — Vivace
  • Andante — Vivace non troppo — Allegretto
  • Andante moderato — Allegretto scherzando — Quasi tempo di marcia
  • Allegro
  • Lento maestoso

with Mark Peskanov, violin; Evan Drachman, cello; Doris Stevenson, piano

Doris Stevenson is deeply committed to performing new music. In the last three years she has played in concert the works of twenty living composers. She was the first woman to perform Frederick Rzewski’s masterpiece, De Profundis  for speaking pianist, which she brought to New York City to perform as a Williams in New York concert. Her many recordings include six major works by David Kechley and two by Ileana Velazquez-Perez, the Saint Saens violin sonatas with Andres Cardenes, the complete Mendelssohn cello works with Jeffrey Solow, and the Brahms Sonatas with cellist Nathaniel Rosen. A CD of Stravinsky rarities with violinist Mark Peskanov received a Grammy nomination. Miss Stevenson taught for ten years at the University of Southern California and has been Lyell B. Clay Artist in Residence at Williams College since 1987.