Continuing its mission to offer a high quality music and cultural Festival for Oklahoma audiences, OK Mozart celebrated its 30th anniversary season this past June. Among its offerings, OK Mozart presented a chamber music series featuring internationally acclaimed pianist Jon Kimura Parker, one of America's highest-profile ensembles, the dynamic Miró Quartet and woodwind players from the Amici New York orchestra; the collaborators returning this season having also appeared at the Festival in 2013. Recorded concerts are held at the Bartlesville Community Center and St. Luke's Episcopal Church.
In the first hour of this encore program, the first edition of the broadcast series, the Miró Quartet and pianist Jon Kimura Parker offer the Quartettsatz of Franz Schubert, Three Romances for Violin and Piano by Clara Schumann and the Piano Quartet of Robert Schumann from a concert given on Monday, June 9th of 2014. To round out the second hour, we'll also hear Beethoven's Op 59, No. 1 Quartet, presented by the Miró Quartet on Monday, June 10th of 2013, both performances given at St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Bartlesville. Performance recordings were made by Tom Lazarus: http://www.classicsound.com/
Performance Oklahoma is heard each week on Saturday evening at 8pm on Classical 88.7-1.