“Divertimento”: String Trios of Mozart and Beethoven

[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.13.1″] Mozart Divertimento in E-flat Major, K. 563 Allegro Adagio Menuetto: Allegretto Andante Menuetto: Allegretto Allegro Beethoven String Trio in G Major, Op. 9, No. 1 Adagio – Allegro con brio Adagio ma non tanto e cantabile Scherzo. Allegro – Trio Presto with Mark Peskanov, violin; Chauncey Patterson, viola; Julian Schwarz, cello American virtuoso violinist and artistic visionary Mark Peskanov was born in Odessa, U.S.S.R. (now Odesa, Ukraine). Peskanov sang before he could walk or talk, and soon became a star violin student at the famed Stolyarsky school. At fifteen, he emigrated to the United States, where he was immediately accepted at the Aspen Music Festival and the Juilliard School. His phenomenal facility and musicianship won him both the Aspen and Juilliard concerto competitions, bringing him to the notice of Isaac Stern and Mstislav Rostropovich and rocketing him into the top echelons of the music world. Upon his debut with the Chicago Symphony, the Chicago Tribune called him a “sensational soloist.” The Cleveland Plain Dealer proclaimed, “Violinist Adds Glory to Odessa” and the New York Times declared, “Mark Peskanov is a tremendous young violinist and his Friday evening concert at Carnegie Hall was a triumph…He has it all—technique, temperament, and taste.” Peskanov is a staunch champion of American composers. He premiered the John Williams Concerto with the St.