Open the season with an exuberant journey through Czech and Central European chamber music, where youthful lyricism, rhythmic vitality, and full-blooded Romantic sweep meet in the richly colored world of the piano quartet. Program Josef Suk: Piano Quartet in A minor, Op. 1 Bohuslav Martinu: Piano Quartet No. 1, H. 287 Antonin Dvorak: Piano Quartet […]
The acclaimed Sitkovetsky Trio brings electrifying ensemble chemistry to a program of haunted drama, youthful intensity, and Romantic ardor, moving from Beethoven’s spectral imagination to Shostakovich’s compressed fire and Schumann’s late lyric urgency. Program Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Trio in D major, Op. 70 No. 1, “Ghost” Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Trio No. 1 in C […]
A program of elegiac beauty and luminous color, tracing the piano trio from Rachmaninoff’s youthful lament through Gade’s graceful Romantic miniatures to Ravel’s dazzling fusion of poetry, rhythm, and instrumental brilliance. Program Sergei Rachmaninoff: Trio elegiaque No. 1 in G minor Niels W. Gade: Novelettes for Piano Trio, Op. 29 Maurice Ravel: Piano Trio in […]
Violin and piano become equal partners in a compelling musical conversation, from Tchaikovsky’s nostalgic lyricism and Beethoven’s taut classical drama to the uncompromising intensity of Shostakovich’s late style. Program Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Souvenir d’un lieu cher, Op. 42 Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata for Piano and Violin No. 4 in A minor, Op. 23 Dmitri Shostakovich: […]
The ARIS Quartet explores music of extraordinary concentration and expressive force, pairing Mozart’s severe contrapuntal mastery with Shostakovich’s wartime testimony and Beethoven’s transcendent late vision. Program Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Adagio and Fugue in C minor, K. 546 Dmitri Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 3 in F major, Op. 73 Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet in A […]
Nicholas Burns charts the piano at its most dramatic and searching, from the revolutionary architecture of Beethoven’s sonatas to Schubert’s profound final-period introspection and the poetic virtuosity of Chopin. Program Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13, “Pathetique” Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57, […]
A sweeping piano quartet program spanning youthful brilliance, Spanish color, and Brahmsian intensity, revealing the genre as one of chamber music’s most passionate and symphonic forms. Program Felix Mendelssohn: Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 1 Joaquin Turina: Piano Quartet in A minor, Op. 67 Johannes Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 3 in C […]
A lyrical Mother’s Day weekend program celebrating the singing voice of the violin, with music that ranges from Mozartian intimacy and Schubertian grace to Kreisler’s showmanship and Grieg’s passionate Nordic Romanticism. Program Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Sonata for Piano and Violin in E minor, K. 304/300c Franz Schubert: Sonatina in A minor, D. 385, Op. posth. […]
The season closes in radiant style with six distinguished string players and two beloved sextets: Brahms’s warm, expansive first essay in the medium and Tchaikovsky’s sunlit Florentine masterpiece. Program Johannes Brahms: String Sextet No. 1 in B-flat major, Op. 18 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Souvenir de Florence, Op. 70 Artists Louisa Stonehill and Alex Redington – […]