Jay Campbell & Patricia Kopatchinskaja at Herbst Theatre, January 26, 2020

San Francisco Performances presents the final concert of PIVOT2020: String Theory, a Festival Exploring Musical Frontiers featuring Jay Campbell & Patricia Kopatchinskaja
Herbst Theatre
Veterans' Building, San Francisco War Memorial Performing Arts Center, 401 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94102-4522 USA
5:00 PM, Sunday, January 26, 2020

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• From the Winchester Troper (11th Century);
• Jörg Widmann: 24 Duos for violin and cello;
• Gibbons: Fantasia;
• Ravel: Sonata for violin and cello;
• Xenakis: Dhipli Zyia;
• Machaut: Balade 4 (Biauté qui);
• Ligeti: Hommage à Hilding Rosenberg;
• Kodály: Duo for violin and cello, Op. 7

[5:03 PM lights down, announcements, band out]

1. [5:07 PM] Anonymous (11th Century): From the Winchester Troper
   
   Jörg Widmann (b.1973): selections from 24 Duos for violin and cello (2008)
2. [5:09 PM] XXI. Valse bavaroise
3. [5:12 PM] XXIV. Toccatina all’inglese
   
   
4. [5:15 PM] Orlando Gibbons (1583–1625): (unidentified) Fantasia (ca. 1620)
   
   Maurice Ravel (1875–1937): Sonata for Violin and Cello (1922)
5. [5:18 PM] Allegro
6. [5:24 PM] Très vif
7. [5:27 PM] Lent
8. [5:34 PM] Vif, avec entrain
   
   [5:39 PM; PK talks about the MI work, and reads a statement from the composer]
9. [5:42 PM] [Márton Illés](http://www.martonilles.com/) (b.1975): Én-kör III (I-Circle) for Violin and Cello (2020) (SF Premiere)
   [set ends 5:48 PM; Illés up onstage to bow with PK & JC]

[6:10 PM lights down, announcements, band out]

1. [6:11 PM] Iannis Xenakis (1922–2001): Dhipli zyia for violin and cello (1951, unpublished)
2. [6:15 PM] Guillaume de Machaut (ca. 1300–1377): Balade 4 (Biaute qui toutes autres pere)
3. [6:17 PM] György Sándor Ligeti (1923–2006): Hommage à Hilding Rosenberg (1982)
   
   Zoltán Kodály (1882–1967): Duo for Violin and Cello, Op.7 (1914)
4. [6:26 PM] Allegro serioso, non troppo
5. [6:29 PM] Adagio - Andante
6. [6:38 PM] Maestoso e largamente, ma non troppo lento - Presto
   [set ends 6:46 PM]
   
   Encore
7. [6:48 PM] C.P.E. Bach: (short piece for keyboard)
   [show ends 6:50 PM; applause ends after a minute or so; I slip out quick before the Q&A gets going … I gots to get down the street to SFJAZZ for the next show!]

• Jay Campbell: cello;
• Patricia Kopatchinskaja: violin.

I enjoy a lazy Sunday: finish some leftover work, do a couple chores, and quaff the usual cuppa coffee after breakfast of yogurt, granola and blueberries. Late in the afternoon, it's time to head to SF for tonight's show. With the odd track work schedule, I leave early and head to West Oakland BART so as not to get stuck somewhere trackside along the way. Happily, the wait is short and the journey quick, so now I sit in the Fermentation Lab with a tasty pint of Local Brewing's Sutro Tower Porter from nitro tap. Maybe the extra gas does the trick, this is fine beer!

Show was interesting: a bizarre blend of very old pieces with very new ones, with two more typical pieces tossed in to hold down each set.

It was fun to listen to, if a little hard to follow, given that the pauses between the pieces weren't always very obviously demarcated by the performers, who seemed to want to run everything together without any sort of so whatsoever.

I'd be interested in seeing them again in a year or three.

Program Notes or program notes

Additional notes about the work were posted in the latest issue of the Strad.

Today's photo gallery comes from ol' squinty!

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