Beethoven & Mendelssohn

This powerhouse program begins with an intimate violin-and-piano performance of music from Stravinsky’s enduring ballet Pulcinella, moves to a beloved early composition by Beethoven—the Piano and Winds Quintet, whose instrumentation Beethoven took from Mozart’s 1784 quintet—and culminates in Mendelssohn’s genre-defining Octet, a work of staggering genius and beauty that the composer wrote when he was only 16 years old.