Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741): Concerto in D major for Guitar and Strings, RV 93 (arr. Pujol/ed. Isbin) [11']
Allegro
Largo
Allegro
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Enrique Granados (1867-1916): Danza española No. 5 "Andaluza" (1890) [15']
Francisco Tárrega (1852-1909): Capricho árabe (1892)
Agustín Barrios Mangoré (1885-1944): Waltz, Op. 8, No. 4 (1952)
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Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992): Four for Tango (1988) [5']
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Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904): String Quartet in F major, Op. 96, "American" (1893) [25']
Allegro ma non troppo
Lento
Molto vivace- Trio
Finale. Vivace ma non troppo
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Luigi Bocceherini (1743-1805): Guitar Quintet No. 4 in D major, G. 448, "Fandango" (1798) [19']
Pastorale
Allegro maestoso
Grave assai
Fandango
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Chautauqua Chamber Music is made possible in part by The Kay Hardesty Logan Fund and The Shirley A. and Arthur R. Duffy Endowment for Classical Guitar.
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Sharon Isbin
Hailed as the pre-eminent guitarist of our time, multiple GRAMMY winner Sharon Isbin was named Musical America’s Instrumentalist of the Year, the first guitarist in their 59-year award history and inducted into the 2023 Guitar Foundation of America’s Hall of Fame. She has been soloist with over 200 orchestras, premiered over 80 works written for her by some of the world’s finest composers, and given sold-out performances in celebrated halls across 40 countries. Winner of the Munich ARD, Madrid and Toronto Competitions, Germany’s Echo Klassik, and Guitar Player’s Best Classical Guitarist awards, she performed in Scorsese’s Oscar-winning The Departed, the White House by invitation of President Obama, and as the only classical artist in the 2010 GRAMMY Awards. The documentary seen by millions on PBS and abroad, Sharon Isbin: Troubadour, won ASCAP’s Television Broadcast Award. Latest in her discography of over 35 recordings include Affinity and Strings for Peace with Amjad Ali Khan, both named Best of 2020. Other titles include Souvenirs of Spain & Italy with the Pacifica Quartet, her GRAMMY-winning Journey to the New World with guest Joan Baez which spent 63 weeks on top Billboard charts, and her Latin GRAMMY-nominated disc with the New York Philharmonic, their only recording with guitar. Recent highlights include a commission for her by Carnegie Hall for its 125th anniversary, a 21-city Guitar Passions tour with jazz greats Stanley Jordan and Romero Lubambo, and a collaboration with Sting. She is the founding director of guitar departments at The Juilliard School and the Aspen Music Festival.
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Pacifica Quartet
With a career spanning three decades, the multiple Grammy Award-winning Pacifica Quartet has achieved international recognition as one of the finest chamber ensembles performing today. The Quartet is known for its virtuosity, exuberant performance style, and often-daring repertory choices. Having served as quartet-in-residence at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music for over a decade, the Quartet also previously the quartet-in-residence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 2021, the Pacifica Quartet received a second Grammy Award for Contemporary Voices, an exploration of music by three Pulitzer Prize-winning composers: Shulamit Ran, Jennifer Higdon, and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich.
Formed in 1994, the Pacifica Quartet quickly won chamber music’s top competitions, including the 1998 Naumburg Chamber Music Award. In 2002 the ensemble was honored with Chamber Music America’s Cleveland Quartet Award and the appointment to Lincoln Center’s The Bowers Program (formerly CMS Two), and in 2006 was awarded a prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant. With its powerful energy and captivating, cohesive sound, the Pacifica has established itself as the embodiment of the senior American quartet sound.
In 2008 the Quartet released its Grammy Award-winning recording of Carter’s Quartets Nos. 1 and 5 on the Naxos label; the 2009 release of Quartets Nos. 2, 3, and 4 completed the two-CD set. Cedille Records released the group’s four-CD recording of the entire Shostakovich cycle, paired with other contemporary Soviet works, to rave reviews: “The playing is nothing short of phenomenal.” (Daily Telegraph, London) Other recent recording projects include Leo Ornstein’s rarely heard piano quintet with Marc-André Hamelin with an accompanying tour, the Brahms piano quintet with the legendary late pianist Menahem Pressler, the Brahms and Mozart clarinet quintets with clarinetist Anthony McGill, and their Grammy Award-winning Contemporary Voices album.
For more information on the Quartet, please visit www.pacificaquartet.com.