book club kit
Download the PDF below to use for your book club. I hope you can use this kit as a springboard to broaden and deepen your understanding of this courageous young woman and her moment in history in relation to your own life and your own world.
LIST OF MUSICAL COMPOSITIONS
Dear Readers,
I would love to provide you with links to performances of the music described in The Gift, Book I, The Well-Tempered Violinist. Unfortunately, I have found YouTube links to be unreliable over time. So here is a complete list of the compositions that figure in Marthe’s story. If you paste these names into the YouTube search box, you’ll find several options for listening. I hope you enjoy them.
Thank you so much for your interest in Marthe Adler and her story,
Barbara T. Carlton
BEFORE:
Music Box: Papageno’s Magic Bells, from the opera The Magic Flute, K. 620
CONSERVATORY:
Year 1
Fall:
Haydn: Trios for violin, viola and cello, Op. 53, No. 1 (second) and No. 3 (first)
Winter:
Mozart: Sonata No. 17 for violin and piano, K. 296
Orchestra:
Mozart: Marriage of Figaro Overture, K. 492
Beethoven: Symphony No. 1, Op. 21
Schubert: Symphony No. 1, D. 82
Spring:
Beethoven: Sonata for violin and piano, Op. 12, No. 1
Mozart: Spring, quartet No. 14, K. 387
Berit solo recital:
Bach: Violin Partita No. 2, BWV 1004
Ros solo recital:
Mendelssohn: Sonata No. 2 for cello and piano, Op. 58
Year 2
Fall:
Schubert: Rosamunde, quartet No. 13, D. 804
Schumann: Violin sonata No. 2, Op. 121
Winter Orchestra:
Mendelssohn: Midsummer Night’s Dream Overture, Op. 21
Mozart: Symphony No. 30, K. 202/186b
Brahms: Symphony No. 1, Op. 68
Spring Solo recital:
Bach: Violin Partita No. 3, BWV 1006
Mozart: Sonata (unnamed, for balance)
Schumann: Sonata (unnamed, for balance)
Year 3
Fall:
Beethoven: Razumovsky, quartet Op. 59 #1
Kreutzer: Études
Rameau: Dances
Mozart: The Hunt, quartet No. 17, K. 458 (Ros)
Winter Orchestra:
Haydn: Symphony No. 50, Hob. 1/50
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5, Op. 67
Wagner: Polonia concert overture, WWV 39
Dvořák: Symphony No. 9, New World, Op. 95
Vienna Quartet:
Mozart: Prussian No. 2, quartet No. 22, K. 589
Schumann: Piano Quintet, Op. 44
Tchaikovsky: Quartet No. 1, Op. 11
Spring:
Spohr: Concerto No. 8
Saint-Saëns: Sonata No. 1 for piano and violin, Op. 75
Third-year recitals:
Arnold: Boccherini: Sonata for cello and piano (unnamed)
Felix: Rubinstein: Sonata No. 1 for violin and piano, Op. 78
Robert: Beethoven: Sonata No. 8, Pathétique, Op. 13
Franz: Brahms: Sonata for viola and piano, (unnamed)
Ros’s recital:
Bach: not specified
Paganini: not specified
Rachmaninoff: Sonata for cello and piano, Op. 19
Dvořák: Silent Woods for cello and piano, B. 173
Berit’s recital:
Bach: not specified
Brahms: Violin concerto, Opus 77
Paganini: Caprice No. 24, M.S. 25
Year 4
Fall:
Schumann: Piano Quintet, Op. 44
Winter Orchestra:
Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, Op. 14
Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet Overture, TH 42
Bruckner: Symphony No. 7, WAB 107
Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks, Op. 28
Marthe’s solo recital:
Bach: Violin sonata No. 3, BWV 1005
Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1, Op. 26
Dvořák: Romance for violin and piano, Op. 11
Paganini: Caprice #1, M.S. 25
Debut:
Rossini: Overture to The Thieving Magpie
Bruch: Violin Concerto No.1, Op. 26
Rimsky Korsakov: Scheherezade, Op. 35