The Carey Concert: Johannes Brahms April 15, 2012

Pianist and Phyllis Henderson Carey Professor of Music, Charles Fisk and cello performing faculty member and Director of the Wellesley Chamber Music Society, David Russell present a program of music by master Romantic composer Johannes Brahms. Their concert is inspired by and designed to augment Charles Fisk’s seminar on the three “B’s” of the Western canon— J.S. Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, and (no offense to Berlioz, Berg, or Bartok) Johannes Brahms. The program will include Four Ballades, Op. 10; Sonata in F Major, Op. 99, for cello and piano; Intermezzo, Op. 118 No. 6 in Eb minor; Intermezzo, Op. 117 No. 2 in Bb minor; and Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Handel, Op. 24.