ChamberMusicNY presents

the Lyon-Sasaki Duo
Mitchell Lyon, cello
Mika Sasaki, piano

NO TICKETS REQUIRED
for this FREE concert

Claude DEBUSSY (1862-1918)
“Le balcon” from Cinq poèmes de Charles Baudelaire, L. 64

Lili BOULANGER (1893-1918)
“Parfois, je suis triste” from Clairières dans le ciel

Francis POULENC (1899-1963)
“Tu vois le feu du soir” from Miroirs brûlants
“Vous n'écrivez plus” from Parisiana

Gabriel FAURÉ (1845-1924)
Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 1 in D Minor, op. 109
Allegro
Andante
Finale: Allegro commodo

Thomas ADÈS (b. 1971)
Selection from Lieux retrouvés (Rediscovered Places; 2009)
“Les eaux”

Andrew HSU (b. 1994)
glacial blue
(2019: New York City premiere)

Benjamin BRITTEN (1913-1976)
Sonata for Cello and Piano, op. 65
Dialogo: Allegro
Scherzo-Pizzicato: Allegretto
Elegia: Lento
Marcia: Energico
Moto perpetuo: Presto

The commission of Andrew Hsu’s glacial blue was made possible with the support of the Juilliard Career Advancement Grant, “Landscapes: Music for a Changing Climate” is a duo recital series and outreach project that aims to raise awareness of the threat of climate change and its potential impact on communities and individuals. The music selected for the program—a mix of standard sonatas, original arrangements of art songs, and a commissioned work—offers a unique perspective on the power of nature and its relationship with humanity.

Composer’s Notes on glacial blue:
As the title glacial blue implies, the piece is part of a series written on the polar regions of the Earth. In our increasingly divided world, many have found solace in these places, disconnected from and devoid of human interaction, as beacons of the continuity of nature and insignificance of existence. Yet our actions as a species threaten even these remote worlds. Rising temperatures and sea levels threaten to destroy the delicate balance of life in these places. We may not mourn the death of a faceless glacier, but we will surely feel its absence.
glacial blue is both a eulogy of what we have and an elegy of what we have lost. It is an admonition of what we might not have in the future and a poem describing how it feels to lose it.
—Andrew Hsu, June 2019

Bruno Walter Auditorium at the NYPL for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center

111 Amsterdam Avenue at West 65th Street

8pm
No tickets required for this free concert