Grieg Piano Concerto and Jeannie Yu

After her triumphant performances last season of Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto, Jeannie returns this season to offer Grieg’s magnificent romantic treasure. We’ve discovered a stunningly beautiful arrangement with string quartet that will feature Jeannie in all her radiance. Puccini’s hauntingly beautiful Crisantemi opens the program followed by Emilie Meier’s G Minor String Quartet. Of the seven quartets she wrote, it is the only one published in her lifetime. Her introduction of a Bach Chorale melody into the slow movement is spine tingling and will make you crave more from her.

Crisantemi by Giacomo Puccini

Quartet in G Minor, Op. 104 (1860) by Emilie Mayer

Concerto in A Minor, Op. 16 [Per Tengstrand, arr.] by Edvard Grieg
Musicians
Jeannie Yu, Piano
David Perry & Dawn Wohn, Violin
Allyson Fleck, Viola
Paula Kosower, Cello

David is sponsored by Michael Elkow and Mary Hauser & Jerry Randall. Allyson is sponsored
by Beverly Ann & Peter Conroy. Paula is sponsored by Genie & David Meissner. Jeannie is
sponsored by Mary Hausser & Jerry Randall.