February 13, 8:00 pm
February 14, 2:00 pm
First Pres Santa Monica 

Leos Janáček
  On the Overgrown Path, from Set I (1901-08)
    "Our Evenings"
    "A blown-away leaf"
    "They chattered like swallows"
    "The barn owl has not flown away!"
Antonín Dvořák
  Quartet No. 12 “American” (1893)
Horaţiu Rădulescu
  Piano Sonata No. 2 "being and non-being create each other" (1991)      
Leos Janáček
  Quartet No. 2 “Intimate pages” (1928)

Denali Quartet
Liam Viney, piano

Pungent as a walk in the woods, the tenderly haunting piano music of Janácêk ripples with Czech soul; then rhapsodic scenes of rural America capture an idyllic summer spent in Czech-speaking community of Spillville, Iowa, as painted by Dvořák, who was Janácêk’s mentor and walking partner. Rădulescu’s eccentric meditations on the source of nature and creation give way to Janácêk’s last passionate musings about the life-force of love.