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Robert Schwartz presents a two-part program marked by duality and symmetry. The first part features two iconic German composers, Johann Sebastian Bach and Robert Schumann, stylistically distinct yet sharing a poetic urgency and improvisatory sense of storytelling. The four-part Bach Toccata is followed by Schumann’s epic three-movement Fantasy in C Major. Schwartz devotes the second part to two Russian composers, Stravinsky and Rachmaninov whose works are more sharply contrasting. Stravinsky’s neoclassic three-movement sonata is spiky, dissonant and satirical, evoking the music of Mozart and Bach while simultaneously parodying their styles. The program concludes with four deeply lush and romantic works of Rachmaninov, the first three melancholic followed by the heroic and joyful return of Bach in Rachmaninov’s arrangement of the baroque composers Violin Partita in E Major.