This summer, the sounds of chamber music will fill barrel rooms and wine caves up and down the Napa Valley as Music in the Vineyards (MITV) presents its 25th Anniversary festival, running July 31 – August 25. Known for its twilight concerts in atmospheric venues with wine tasting at intermission, the festival is now harvesting the fruits of its labor and has become renowned not just for its beautiful wine country setting, but also for the caliber of its performers, the quality of music it produces, and the relationships it fosters between artists and audience.
Program Notes fro Clos Pegase Winery:
Join us in the only winery that has hosted Music in the Vineyards for every one of our twenty-five years. Brahms’ late viola sonata—written after his official “retirement”—proves a worthy benediction to his life’s work. Debussy’s early piano trio is uncharacteristically sweet and sentimental, verging on salon music.
Program
Madeline Dring: Trio for Flute, Oboe and Piano
Brahms: Viola Sonata no. 2, op. 120 ㉕
Piazzolla: Oblivion for Oboe and Strings
Debussy: Piano Trio ㉕
Musicians
Violin: Mari Lee, Arnaud Sussmann, Daria Adams
Viola: Masumi Per Rostad, Jonathan Vinocour
Cello: Nicholas Canellakis, Joshua Roman
Piano: Michael Brown
Flute: Bart Feller
Oboe: Elizabeth Koch Tiscione