Ying Quartet with Jeewon Park

Music at the Mill: Ying Quartet with Jeewon Park Join us at Dutchman’s in Brunswick for our spring Music at the Mill Concert. The evening includes a wine and beer social hour, chamber music concert, and gourmet pizza reception. The performance features the Ying Quartet teaming up with pianist Jeewon Park for Brahms’ beloved Piano Quintet. Ying Quartet Robin Scott, Janet Ying, violin • Phillip Ying, viola • David Ying, cello JOHANNES BRAHMS Piano Quintet in F Minor, Op. 34 Robin Scott, Janet Ying, violin • Phillip Ying, viola • David Ying, cello • Jeewon Park, piano Additional repertoire to be announced. 6:00 PM: Doors and Bar Open Join us for beer and wine before the concert. 7:00 PM: Concert 8:15 PM: Post-Concert Reception Join us in the restaurant after the concert for delicious pizza and to chat with the artists. Pizza, beer, and wine are included with your ticket purchase. Program Notes JOHANNES BRAHMS Piano Quintet in F Minor, Op. 34 (1864) Brahms’ Piano Quintet belongs to an outpouring of chamber music from the early 1860s — the period musicologists generally call Brahms’ “first maturity” — which also gave rise to his two string sextets, his first two piano quartets, and the horn trio. The style Brahms cultivated during these years is partly accountable to his historicist sensibility: his appreciation for the large-scale formal arcs and emotional intensity of Beethoven, to be sure, but also his study of the unhurried melodies and harmonic sorcery of Schubert, whose instrumental music was considerably less known at that time. But the final form of the Piano Quintet is also the result of Brahms’ dialogue with a trusted coterie of performers who offered critical feedback. The musical substance began its life scored for string quintet, with two cellos (suggesting that Brahms was keeping the score of Schubert’s glorious cello quintet nearby). He presented this version of the work to violinist Joseph Joachim, a close friend and tireless advocate…