Taos Chamber Music Group Presents Celebratory Program ‘Hommage À Fauré’ March 16-17

Submitted by Carol A. Clark
on February 16, 2024
- 7:49 am

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TCMG News:

The Taos Chamber Music Group (TCMG) presents a celebratory program honoring those who teach and forge new paths, “Hommage à Fauré” at 5:30 p.m. Saturday, March 16 and Sunday, March 17 at the Harwood Museum of Art in Taos. The preeminent pianist, Robert McDonald, will join Sally Guenther (cello) and Ruxandra Marquardt (violin) in a tribute to Gabriel Fauré in the centenary year of his death.

Guenther, TCMG musician and creator of the program says, “March’s concert begins with a wonderfully charismatic and vigorous example of Fauré’s writing, Cello Sonata in D Minor, Op. 180. This more youthful sonata contrasts temperamentally with the lyrical piano trio from Fauré’s last years which ends the program, Piano Trio in D Minor, Op. 120.”

The program also will include the lively Sonatine for Violin and Cello by Arthur Honneger (mentee of Fauré) and a solo performance by McDonald of selected Claude Debussy Preludes.

TCMG’s 31st Season continues with two more programs to follow in April and May, 2024.

For more information on artists and performances, visit taoschambermusicgroup.org.