MARLBORO — Marlboro Music, the Vermont retreat celebrating its 65th season, will share some of the discoveries made by its 75 resident artists during its first six weeks of in-depth rehearsals during upcoming performances.
A special concert on Friday, Aug. 7 at 8:30 p.m., in the Marlboro College Dining Hall, is the annual benefit for area organizations and will offer an eclectic mix with works for string quartet, voice and guitar, woodwind octet, and piano trio. The beneficiaries of all the proceeds of the performance are the Marlboro Alliance, Rescue Inc., and Brattleboro Memorial Hospital.
Adolf Busch, whose vision led to the founding of Marlboro in 1951, will be honored with a performance of his Quartet in One Movement, Op. 29 by violinists Lucy Chapman and Kobi Malkin, violist Matthew Lipman and his granddaughter, cellist Judith Serkin, on Aug. 7, a day before his birthday.
Also on the program is William Walton's Anon in Love for tenor and guitar with Jean-Philippe Fortier-Lazure, the rarely-heard Dvorak Piano Quartet in D Major, Op. 23, and the Divertimento for Eight Wind Instruments (1940) by Gideon Klein, a Czech pianist and composer, and an organizer of cultural life at Theresienstadt concentration camp.
The ensemble in the Klein includes oboists Joseph Peters and Mary Lynch; Narek Arutyunian and Michael Rusinek, clarinets; Brad Balliett and Steven Dibner, bassoons; and Radovan Vlatkovic and Nicolee Kuester, horns.
Artists in the Dvorak will be pianist Anna Polonsky, violinist Alexi Kenney, violist Molly Carr, and Guarneri Quartet cellist Peter Wiley.
Saturday's Aug. 8 concert at 8:30 p.m. in Marlboro College's Persons Auditorium offers two major French chamber music works: the Debussy Sonata for flute, viola and harp with Brook Ferguson, Rebecca Albers and Sivan Magen, and the Poulenc Sextuor with the young Hungarian pianist Zoltan Fejervari, flutist Marina Piccinini, oboist Mary Lynch, clarinetist Narek Arutyunian, bassoonist Brad Balliett, and Lauren Hunt, French horn.
In spite of their popularity, it will be the first public performance at Marlboro of the Poulenc since 1974 and only the second in 30 years for the Debussy, illustrating the wide diversity of repertoire explored and performed at Marlboro over the years.
Marlboro's current group of young string players will be heard when they join noted violist Nobuko Imai, who herself came to Marlboro in 1968, early in her career, in the Dvorak Sextet in A Major, Op. 48. They are violinists Francisco Fullana and Mari Lee, violist Daniel Kim, and cellists Isang Enders and Tony Rymer.
Sunday's Aug. 9 program at 2:30 p.m. opens with the Reger Serenade in D Major, Op. 77a, being heard for the first time since 2001, with Piccinini, Luosha Fang, violin and violist Sally Chisholm; and a coupling of Schumann's Maerchenerzaehungen, Op. 132 and the Kurtag Hommage a Robert Schumann, Op. 15d with pianist Jonathan Biss, clarinetist Gabriel Campos Zamora and violist Matthew Lipman.
The program ends with the Ravel Trio with Mr. Fejervari, violinist Tessa Lark and cellist Christoph Richter, who is participating at Marlboro for the first time. Richter is a former member of the Cherubini Quartet and a frequent chamber music partner of Andras Schiff.