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 at Robert Mondavi Winery: Schubert’s celebrated ‘cello’ quintet, finished in the final months of his illness-shortened 31 years, is in a realm all its own, as if the composer had already glimpsed into the beyond to create this sublime work of art that is on everyone’s list of favorites.
Program
Rossini: Sonata for Two Violins, Cello and Double Bass
Ysaÿe: String Trio
Schubert: Quintet for Strings in C major ㉕
Musicians
Violin: Kristin Lee, Kerry McDermott, Violaine Melançon, Ross Snyder, Daria Adams
Viola: Roger Tapping
Cello: Natasha Brofsky, Adrian Golay, Serafim Smigelskiy
Bass: Scott Pingel