PROGRAM

• Claudio MONTEVERDI and his contemporaries — Courtly Italian Early Baroque
• Vocal solos and duets by MONTEVERDI (1567-1643) plus songs by  Luigi ROSSI (1597-1653), PESENTI (c.1600-c.1648) & MELLI (c.1572-fl.1610)
• Instrumental music by TURINI (1589-1656), CIMA (1570-1622), Michele ROSSI (1601-1656) & FONTANA (1571-1630)
  

Pre-Concert Talk: TBA (at 6:15PM)

MUSIC

Courtly Italian Early Baroque—the passionate, fiery and inventive vocal and instrumental music with which Claudio Monteverdi (1567 - 1643) and his contemporaries created the Baroque era of music.

ARTISTS

With “fresh, strong singing” (N.Y. Times), TENET’s dynamic soprano duo Jolle Greenleaf and Molly Quinn, in collaboration with
Quicksilver, share selections from their “well-rounded and impeccably performed” (Classical Ear) hit program UNO + ONE: Italia Nostra.
Quicksilver Baroque’s historically-informed performers are “revered like rock stars with in the early music scene” (N.Y. Times), and play “drop dead gorgeous with a wonderful interplay of timbres.” (Early Music America). “irresistible” (Fanfare magazine).

Quicksilver Baroque  • Jolle Greenleaf  • Molly Quinn  • TENET

PROGRAM

• BEETHOVEN Variations for cello & piano on Bei Männern,
  welche Liebe fühlen (from Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte), WoO 46 (1801);
• SCHUBERT Sonata in A Minor for viola & piano, D.821, Arpeggione (1824);
  
• BOTTESINI Grand Duo Concertante for violin, bass & piano (1880);
  
• SCHUBERT Piano Quintet in A Major, D.667, Trout (1819).
  

Pre-Concert Talk: TBA (at 7:15PM)

MUSIC

Beethoven’s variations on Pamina & Papageno’s 1st act duet from the Magic Flute are beguiling.
Schubert’s Apreggione Sonata was composed for a now-extinct bowed guitar.
Bottesini’s Grand Duo showed off his virtuosity on the double bass.
Schubert’s enduringly delightful, lyric, and deeply satisfying Piano Quintet uses the double bass and his familiar song Die Forelle (The Trout).

ARTISTS

The Society’s concerts are praised for extraordinary quality — whether at home in Alice Tully Hall on tour worldwide. Our musicians are: sought-after piano soloist Orion Weiss; violinist Paul Huang — 2015 Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient; violist Paul Neubauer, “a master musician” (The N.Y. Times); Miami Quartet founding cellist Keith Robinson; and 2018 Avery Fisher Grant winner bassist Xavier Foley.

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

PROGRAM

• DOHNANYI Serenade in C Major, for string trio, Op.10 (1902);
• MOZART Piano Quartet #2 in E-Flat Major, K.493 (1786);
  
• BRAHMS Piano Quartet #1 in G Minor, Op.25, Gypsy Rondo (1857-61).
  

Pre-Concert Talk:  TBA (at 6:15PM)

MUSIC

Hungarian Ernst von Dohnanyi’s Serenade is his attempt to update the classical string trio of Beethoven’s times.
Mozart’s piano quartets—the first great ones—collegially balance the roles and sonorities of piano and strings.
Brahms’ broad, expressive Piano Quartet captivates with its boisterous Hungarian tour-de-force Rondo ‘in the Gypsy Style’.

ARTISTS

The Escher, regular guests at Wigmore Hall-London, are Season Artists of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. “Individual technical precision and a collective musical purpose that is endlessly compelling…Sheer brilliance. (The Strad). • Jon Nakamatsu is known internationally for the panache and elegance of his performances. “Mr. Nakamatsu delivered both a graceful singing quality and assertive muscularity…” — Allan Kozinn, The New York Times.

Escher String Quartet  • Jon Nakamatsu

PROGRAM

• MOZART Piano Quartet #1 in G Minor, K.478 (1785);
  
• SCHUMANN Piano Quartet in E-Flat Major, Op.47 (1842);
  
• FAURÉ Piano Quartet #2 in G Minor, Op.45 (1886).
  

Pre-Concert Talk:  TBA (at 7:15PM)

MUSIC

Mozart’s quartet in his sublime key of G Minor balances the concerto-like piano part with equally strong, interesting string parts.
Schumann’s impassioned, Romantic quartet richly expresses his thoughts and feelings with clarity and concision.
Fauré’s deeply personal, G Minor Quartet, in cyclic form, has supple originality, emotional intensity, rhythmic drive, progressive harmony, craftsmanship, and eloquence.

ARTISTS

The Fauré Piano Quartett—winner of music competitions and recording awards—has established itself as one of the world’s leading piano quartets, as we heard first-hand here in their 2010 concert. The Quartett—formed in Karlsruhe in 1995 for the Fauré 150th anniversary—is pioneering, and world-touring (e.g. Wigmore Hall-London, Teatro Colon-Buenos Aires). “The whole performance had a prismatic vigor.” – Indianapolis Star. “This quartet thinks and breathes as one...” (Toronto Star).

Fauré Piano Quartett 

PROGRAM

• BEETHOVEN String Quartet in E Minor, Op.59 #2, Razumovsky (1806);
• TCHAIKOVSKY String Quartet #2 in F Major, Op.22 (1874).
  

Pre-Concert Talk:  TBA (at 6:15PM)

MUSIC

Beethoven used the three quartets commissioned by Russian Ambassador Count Razumovsky to greatly expand the string quartet form—or genre—in complexity, length and wider emotional compass. The lyrical work has a dark intensity.
Tchaikovsky considered his Quartet #2 (a debut for us) “one of my best compositions; none has flowed out of me so easily and simply”—in melodic, lyric, and dramatic expression of emotion. Its Andante is intensely personal.

ARTISTS

Welcome back the Ying String Quartet, quartet-in-residence at the prestigious Eastman School of Music (Rochester N.Y.). Its three Ying siblings performed for us in 2000 and 2002. Now in its third decade, the Quartet has established itself as an ensemble of the highest musical qualifications. Their Tchaikovsky CD won Grammy nomination. “The Ying Quartet came as close to the ideal as possible, delivering chamber music of astonishing, refreshing exaltation and exhilaration.” (The Los Angeles Times).

 Ying String Quartet