Ensemble Aubade: Chamber Music Treasures, Mozart and More

CLAREMONT, N.H. - Aug. 15, 2024 - PRLog -- West Claremont Center for Music and the Arts presents the acclaimed Ensemble Aubade (Peter H. Bloom, flute and alto flute; Francis Grimes, viola; and Steven Sussman, piano) in Mozart, Madame Farrenc, and More on Saturday, August 17, 2024 at 6:30 pm at Union Church, 133 Old Church Rd, Claremont, NH 03743.

Aubade is based in Boston and performs across the United States. They've been praised for "intensity, imagination, skill, and finesse" (St. Lawrence University, New York).  Their playing has been called "riveting" (Keighton Series) and "dynamic, expressive, richly colored and affecting" (Loretto Motherhouse, Kentucky).   "Everyone was in Ensemble Aubade's thrall" (Friends of Music and Arts, Knoxville).

The concert on August 17 will take the audience on a fascinating tour, from the salons of Vienna and Paris to the concert halls of New York.  The concert juxtaposes two masterworks: Mozart's exquisite Kegelstatt Trio in E Flat Major, K. 498, with Bloom on alto flute (called "wonderfully smoky and mysterious" by EarRelevant), and the magnificent Trio Opus 45 (1856) by Louise Farrenc, famous in her time but rarely heard today. Farrenc was the first female professor at the Paris Conservatory, where she taught from 1842 to 1873.  She was an esteemed composer, an acclaimed concert pianist, and a successful music publisher.  The concert finale is the thrilling and ever-surprising Concertino for Flute, Viola, Piano (1950) by Swiss-born American composer Ernest Bloch.  For information, visit https://www.wcc-ma.org/