RICHARD GOODE PLAYS MOZART

An evening of musical dialogue unfolds as pianist Richard Goode partners with LACO’s Director of Chamber Music Margaret Batjer. Schumann, writing during one of his fragile yet fervent creative periods, pours a restless inner dialogue into his First Violin Sonata. Mozart’s Piano Quartet in E-flat major is deceptively light; beneath its polished exterior lies a young composer subtly introducing risk into a genre not yet ready for it. Finally, Beethoven’s septet, beloved almost to the point of cliché, feels like a manifesto for community—music that celebrates the ensemble as a metaphor for how individual voices might coexist, challenge, and complete one another.

LOS ANGELES CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Margaret Batjer, DIRECTOR OF CHAMBER MUSIC
Richard Goode, PIANO

PROGRAM
Robert Schumann, Violin Sonata No. 1 in A minor, Op. 107
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Quartet for Piano and String Trio in E-flat major, K. 478
Ludwig van Beethoven, Septet in E-flat major, Op. 20