The Tasting Music Series helps you go deeper into four great chamber music masterpieces. This series highlights the union of composer and performer. Tonight’s performance is made possible by the generosity of Rick and Cecile Ervin.

Tonight we return to Canoe Ridge Vineyards and the historical Trolley House. The music, Langsamer Satz (slow movement) for string quartet by Anton Webern, is a lyrical and heartfelt testament of love. Anton Webern, along with his teacher Arnold Schönberg and colleague Alban Berg, is closely associated with a movement in music known as the Second Viennese School. The Second Viennese School marks the dissolution of tonality and a new compositional and harmonic approach known as Twelve-Tone Technique. To many, this new style of composition was an affront. To others it became a gateway to a world of endless harmonic possibilities. Tonight we will be content to revel in the beauty of one of Webern’s only tonal works. The revolution of modernism can wait on this night.

Anton Webern (1883-1945)

Langsamer Satz in E Flat (1905) for string quartet

Artists: Timothy Christie, Norbert Lewandowski, Stephen Miahky, and Maria Sampen.