Napa composer Louise Canepa helped gather the forces for 90 minutes of varied musical programming this past Sunday at Yountville’s Lincoln Theater.

Canepa has forged a multi-year relationship with the Rimsky-Korsakov String Quartet based in St. Petersburg, Russia. She added Catherine and Anthony Angelo, the Angelo Piano Duo, as well as Londoner and mezzo-soprano Sally Porter Munro.

The quartet was still recovering from a long flight from Europe, beginning the concert with a movement from Grieg’s quartet, “Jour de Fete.” It was not a flawless performance, but a nice reading with superb dynamic contrast, interesting tonality shifts and mounting tension leading to the climax.

Canepa’s pieces, “Mutter’s Garten” and “Caro Bambino,” featured Munro and the four strings with an international bent. As with her other works, “Garten” is a simple and melodic piece with chordal underpinnings that could provide the basis for a pop ballad or even movie music. On her “Caro Bambino,” one could hear echoes of an Italian street accordionist.

Composer colleague Marge Wheeler’s “Promise” is a pleasant piece with pizzicato cello and chords from the other string players. Her “Slavonic Dance” brought on the four hands of the Angelo Piano Duo, joining the quartet.

The quartet was at its best with works from its regular repertoire, including a Vivaldi Sinfonia with three short movements and two segments of Borodin’s second quartet including “Notturno” with its familiar and haunting melody leading off in the cello.

Then came the “Scherzo,” which was followed by the obligatory standing ovation. Seems nearly everyone who performs at Lincoln Theater gets one, thus diminishing its true value and meaning.

Alexander Kopylov, once a student of Rimsky-Korsakov, provided the music for a brief encore.

Also on the program, Canepa’s “Breeze in Mountain Trees,” “Reverie” and “Romanza Waltz” again showed off her melodic, romantic style indicative of her easy listening recordings, including one that she traveled to St. Petersburg to complete two years ago.

The Rimsky-Korsakov Quartet was first formed in 1939. Three of the current members, violinists Mikhail Bondarev and Ekaterina Belisova and violist Alexey Popov have played together for nearly two decades. Cellist Stanislav Lyamin is the newest member.

Sunday’s event was sponsored by the Veterans Home of California at Yountville Allied Council, the Morale Welfare & Recreation Fund and the American Association of Pen Women and the Italian-American Heritage Foundation.

The Rimsky-Korsakov String Quartet will perform next Sunday at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco.