Urban Nocturnes is delighted to be be a part of Scottsdale’s world class MusicFest. The Pizza-cato Chamber Music Series showcases The Valley’s top musicians in a intimate but casual lunch time concert and Q and A. Karen, Christopher, Melita, Viviana, and Erin will perform a variety of works for strings and winds. The program begins with a Quintet by 18th century Austrian composer Franz Xaver Süssmayr. This graceful and well-mannered piece is immediately contrasted by an innovative set of 7 Dances for Flute, Clarinet and Cello by living composer Brian Raphael Nabors. The second part of the concert opens with an arrangement for violin and viola of Schubert's thrillingly sinister Lied "Der Erlkönig", followed by the reflective and playful Sonatine Modale for Flute and Clarinet by French composer Charles Koechlin. The program concludes with the String Trio No. 1 in A Minor, a substantive work that is by turns impassioned and jocular, by Post-romantic German composer Max Reger.
