First Mondays at Jordan Hall: Clara and Robert Schumann
Here’s a secret of great artistry: no one does it alone.
This season, First Mondays explore connections and friendships between composers and musicians who inspired each other.
Join us as we celebrate 35 years of First Mondays: well-loved classics and new compositions, performed by some of the finest chamber musicians in the world, free and open to all.
Notes on the program from Artistic Director Laurence Lesser
This fall’s three concerts are a series built on the deep friendship among five great musicians: Clara and Robert Schumann, Felix Mendelssohn, Joseph Joachim, and Johannes Brahms. To varying degrees all were composers and performers.
October 7: Clara and Robert Schumann
Clara Wieck Schumann was born in 1819, 200 years ago. The love that united her and Robert had music at its core. While Clara deferred to Robert as composer, she was one of the most famous pianists of her time. But her “Romances” of 1853, dedicated to the wonderful violinist Joseph Joachim (born 1832), show her deeply felt gift for composition. Robert’s part of the program includes his preoccupation with the human voice as an expression of love. His “chamber music year” (1842) finished with the enduringly popular piano quintet.
- Laurence Lesser, Artistic Director | First Monday at Jordan Hall
Clara Schumann: Three Romances for Violin and Piano, op. 22 (dedicated to Joseph Joachim)
Artists- Donald Weilerstein, violin
- Vivian Hornik Weilerstein, piano
Robert Schumann: Spanische Liebeslieder, op.138
Artists- Sarah Yanovitch*, soprano
- Jaime Kathleen Korkos*, mezzo-soprano
- Michael Kuhn*, tenor
- Corey Gaudreau*, baritone
- Tanya Blaich*, piano
- Cameron Stowe, piano
Robert Schumann: Piano Quintet in E–flat Major, op. 44
Artists- Donald Weilerstein, violin
- Ari Isaacman-Beck*, violin
- Kim Kashkashian, viola
- Timotheos Petrin*, cello
- Michael Bukhman, piano
* denotes NEC alumni
Here’s a secret of great artistry: no one does it alone.
This season, First Mondays explore connections and friendships between composers and musicians who inspired each other.
Join us as we...
Due to weather, this concert has been rescheduled and will now take place on Thursday, December 12.
Here’s a secret of great artistry: no one does it alone.
This season, First Mondays explore...
Here’s a secret of great artistry: no one does it alone.
This season, First Mondays explore connections and friendships between composers and musicians who inspired each other.
Join us as we...
Here’s a secret of great artistry: no one does it alone.
This season, First Mondays explore connections and friendships between composers and musicians who inspired each other.
Join us as we...
Here’s a secret of great artistry: no one does it alone.
This season, First Mondays explore connections and friendships between composers and musicians who inspired each other.
Join us as we...