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

Cal Performances presents David Finckel & Wu Han
Alfred Hertz Memorial Concert Hall
U.C. Berkeley, Bancroft Way at College Ave, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
3:00 PM, Sunday, November 24, 2019

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[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]

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

1. [3:13 PM] Allegro, ma non tanto
2. [3:25 PM] Scherzo: Allegro molto - Trio
3. [3:31 PM] Adagio cantabile - Allegro vivace
   [work ends 3:39 PM; pause for a moment]

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

1. [3:42 PM] Allegro vivace
2. [3:50 PM] Adagio affettuoso
3. [3:57 PM] Allegro passionato
4. [4:04 PM] Allegro molto
   [set ends 4:08 PM; applause, then all off for break]

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

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

1. [4:29 PM] Scherzo
   [work ends 4:33 PM; pause]

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

1. [4:34 PM] Allegretto ben moderato
2. [4:40 PM] Allegro
3. [4:48 PM] Recitativo-Fantasia: Ben moderato
4. [4:54 PM] Allegretto poco mosso
   [set ends 5:00 PM]

1. [5:02 PM] Achille-Claude Debussy (1862–1918): Reflets dans l'eau (Reflections in the Water)
   [show ends 5:04 PM]

• David Finckel: cello;
• Wu Han: piano.

The astute reader may wonder at the odd double-tilde markup – that's un-interpreted Markdown 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, like this. Doh! 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 or program notes

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