# David Finckel & Wu Han at Alfred Hertz Memorial Concert Hall, November 24, 2019

[Cal Performances](https://calperformances.org/performances/2019-20/recital/david-finckel-cello-and-wu-han-piano.php) presents [David Finckel](http://www.davidfinckelandwuhan.com/) & [Wu Han](http://davidfinckelandwuhan.com/)  
[Alfred Hertz Memorial Concert Hall](http://music.berkeley.edu/about-us/resources-and-facilities/performance-spaces/)  
[U.C. Berkeley, Bancroft Way at College Ave, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA](http://maps.google.com/maps?q=U.C.+Berkeley,+Bancroft+Way+at+College+Ave,+Berkeley,+CA+94720+USA&hl=en)  
3:00 PM, Sunday, November 24, 2019

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## Set One

[3:00 PM lights down, waiting]  
[3:01 PM Wu Han talks about today's program]  
[3:12 PM WH off for a moment before returning with DF]

### Beethoven: Cello Sonata No. 3 in A Major, Op. 69

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827): Cello Sonata No. 3 in A Major, Op. 69 (1808)

01. [3:13 PM] Allegro, ma non tanto
02. [3:25 PM] Scherzo: Allegro molto - Trio
03. [3:31 PM] Adagio cantabile - Allegro vivace  
[work ends 3:39 PM; pause for a moment]

### Brahms: Cello Sonata No. 2 in F Major, Op. 99

Johannes Brahms (1833–1897): Cello Sonata No. 2 in F Major, Op. 99 (1886)

01. [3:42 PM] Allegro vivace
02. [3:50 PM] Adagio affettuoso
03. [3:57 PM] Allegro passionato
04. [4:04 PM] Allegro molto  
[set ends 4:08 PM; applause, then all off for break]

## Set Two

[4:26 PM lights down, announcements, performers out]  
[4:28 PM; Wu Han talks about the Debussy piece]

### Debussy: ~~Nocturne et~~ Scherzo

Achille-Claude Debussy (1862–1918): ~~Nocturne et~~ Scherzo (1882)

01. [4:29 PM] Scherzo  
[work ends 4:33 PM; pause]

### Franck: Violin Sonata in A Major 

César-Auguste-Jean-Guillaume-Hubert Franck (1822–1890): Violin Sonata in A Major (1886), transposed for Cello (by DF?)

01. [4:34 PM] Allegretto ben moderato
02. [4:40 PM] Allegro
03. [4:48 PM] Recitativo-Fantasia: Ben moderato
04. [4:54 PM] Allegretto poco mosso  
[set ends 5:00 PM]

### Encore: Debussy: Reflets dans l'eau

10. [5:02 PM] Achille-Claude Debussy (1862–1918): _Reflets dans l'eau_ (Reflections in the Water)  
[show ends 5:04 PM]

## Performers

* [David Finckel](http://www.davidfinckelandwuhan.com/): cello;
* [Wu Han](http://davidfinckelandwuhan.com/): piano.

## Notes

The astute reader may wonder at the odd double-tilde markup -- that's un-interpreted [Markdown GFM](https://github.github.com/gfm/) formatting, meant to denote a section that has been struck-through. Unfortunately, Dokuwiki's Markdown interpreter fails to deal with that code (leaving it as plain text), and substituting the %%<del></del>%% HTML enclosure makes things worse, as the tagging is ignored in the header, but introduces unwanted line breaks on the following narrative text, <del>like this. Doh!</del> So we're stuck with the current ugly solution.

With that aside wrapped up, you'd think I could make time to write something interesting about the show, but for now, I'll comment only that it was excellent. Finkel & Han are top flight musicians, and as long as my schedule permits, I intend to see them every time they come 'round these parts.

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[Program Notes](https://calperformances.org/learn/program_notes/2019-20/pn_david_finckel_and_wu_han.pdf) or {{:2019:2019-11:pn_david_finckel_and_wu_han.pdf|program notes}}

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