Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival
| Date: | Sat, Jan 13, 2018 |
| Time | 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM |
| Venue: | Rotie Cellars Winery | 510 E Boeing Avenue, Walla Walla, Washington 99362 |
| Phone: | 509.301.9074 |
We are lucky enough to be included once again as a stop on the Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival's tour in January. Join us for an evening of beautiful music and a glass (or two) of wine.
January’s Tasting Music event features one of the great works in the chamber music canon, the Fauré Piano Quartet in C minor, Op. 15. Gabriel Fauré would eventually become the grand old man of French music, director of the Paris Conservatory and teacher to such luminaries as Maurice Ravel and Nadia Boulanger. But in 1876, he was part of the new wave of French composers looking to make his mark. By his own admission, progress was slow. After a gestation period of about four years, he revealed his C minor Piano Quartet in 1880. Following a successful premiere, Fauré took to heart criticisms of his colleagues further revising the work. The quartet in its final form emerged in 1883, a full seven years after Fauré began composing it.
From the noble opening unison string melody to the gently prickly scherzo to the romantic grandeur of the Adagio and the heaven-storming Finale, we discover that Fauré’s was a septenniad well spent!
Performances at our winery tend to sell out! Tickets may be purchased in advance here: wwcmf.org/events