October 2018
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center: Russian Inspiration; Michael Brown and Gloria Chien, Piano
As a prelude to this season’s Winter Festival, Program Viotti Duo in G major for Two Violins, W 4.9 (c. 1789–90) Mozart Andante and Five Variations in G major for…
Find out more »Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center: Shai Wosner with the Emerson String Quartet
The string quartet has long been one of chamber music’s most popular genres. In a program revealing the ensemble’s abundant possibilities, the fabled Emerson String Quartet is joined by the…
Find out more »Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center: The Kreutzer Connection; Juho Pohjonen, Piano
A thread of intrigue connects the dramatic works on this fascinating program. A shocking Tolstoy novella is vividly captured in Janáček’s quartet, and the cause of the story’s mayhem—Beethoven’s “Kreutzer”…
Find out more »November 2018
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center: The Trout Quintet; Orion Weiss, Piano
While great music can be gripping, heart-wrenching, and profound, it is just as often exactly what’s needed to entertain, distract, and lift the spirits. In a program almost too pleasant…
Find out more »Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center: Death and the Maiden; Wu Qian, Piano
The inevitable phenomenon of life’s end has produced a wealth of the world’s great masterpieces of art. From Michelangelo’s Program Rachmaninov Two Movements for String Quartet (1889) Mussorgsky Pesni i…
Find out more »Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center: Windstorm; Lise de la Salle, Piano
The sonic array of a wind instrument chamber music concert is unsurpassable. Although we revel in the thunder of the modern piano and the warmth of the violin, the soundscape…
Find out more »December 2018
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center: Baroque Collection; Kenneth Weiss, Harpsichord
As the holidays approach, many give thanks for their blessings, and for music lovers, there’s nothing to be more grateful for than the entire Baroque era, lasting roughly 150 years…
Find out more »Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center: Baroque Collection; Kenneth Weiss, Harpsichord
As the holidays approach, many give thanks for their blessings, and for music lovers, there’s nothing to be more grateful for than the entire Baroque era, lasting roughly 150 years…
Find out more »Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center: Brandenburg Concertos; Paolo Bordignon, Harpsichord
A New York holiday season would be incomplete without the performances of Bach’s eternally fresh Brandenburg Concertos. CMS musicians lend their remarkable talents to this festive annual tradition. Program Bach…
Find out more »Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center: Brandenburg Concertos; Paolo Bordignon, Harpsichord
A New York holiday season would be incomplete without the performances of Bach’s eternally fresh Brandenburg Concertos. CMS musicians lend their remarkable talents to this festive annual tradition. Program Bach…
Find out more »Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center: Brandenburg Concertos; Paolo Bordignon, Harpsichord
A New York holiday season would be incomplete without the performances of Bach’s eternally fresh Brandenburg Concertos. CMS musicians lend their remarkable talents to this festive annual tradition. Program Bach…
Find out more »January 2019
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center: Esteemed Ensemble; Wu Han, Piano
After extensive American and European tours, this ensemble of close friends and colleagues reunites for a program of piano quartet classics. Brahms’s masterful work is juxtaposed with Dvořák’s irresistibly charming…
Find out more »Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center: Esteemed Ensemble; Wu Han, Piano
After extensive American and European tours, this ensemble of close friends and colleagues reunites for a program of piano quartet classics. Brahms’s masterful work is juxtaposed with Dvořák’s irresistibly charming…
Find out more »February 2019
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center: Total Mozart; Juho Pohjonen, Piano
How many Mozart pieces show up on desert island lists? How many music lovers have wished to hear Mozart as their last music on earth? Mozart’s genius is unfathomable and…
Find out more »Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center: International Collection; Gilles Vonsattel, Piano
Debussy’s impressionist cello sonata and Brahms’s magisterial string sextet are accompanied by a colorful clarinet trio by the Armenian Aram Khachaturian and a significant addition to the piano quintet repertoire…
Find out more »Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center: Farewells; Gilbert Kalish, Piano
From the idyllic opening of Beethoven’s final violin sonata, to the impassioned evocations of Bohemian culture in Dvořák’s “Dumky” Trio, this program breathes the nostalgic air of departure. Music’s ability…
Find out more »March 2019
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center: Hungarian Fire; Alessio Bax, Piano
Hungary’s deep musical roots in folk tradition had widespread influence on composers of other lands. Brahms, the strict traditionalist, shared his love of Hungarian folk music with his predecessors Mozart,…
Find out more »Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center: Winter Festival I; Michael Brown, Anne-Marie McDermott and Wu Qian, Piano
CMS traverses the turbulent historical landscape of Russia through its vastly expressive music. From the glorious musical outpourings of the age of the tsars and the Russian Empire to the…
Find out more »Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center: Winter Festival II; Wu Han, Piano
CMS traverses the turbulent historical landscape of Russia through its vastly expressive music. From the glorious musical outpourings of the age of the tsars and the Russian Empire to the…
Find out more »Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center: Winter Festival III; Gilbert Kalish and Gilles Vonsattel, Piano
CMS traverses the turbulent historical landscape of Russia through its vastly expressive music. From the glorious musical outpourings of the age of the tsars and the Russian Empire to the…
Find out more »Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center: Seven Last Words; Paolo Bordignon, Harpsichord
In 1786 Franz Joseph Haydn received a commission for a work celebrating Good Friday, for the service at Oratorio de la Santa Cueva (Holy Cave Oratory) in Cádiz, Spain. Haydn…
Find out more »April 2019
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center: Three Centuries; Wu Qian, Piano
CMS presents an exciting new work, by the brilliant Australian composer and violist Brett Dean, commissioned in partnership with London’s Wigmore Hall. Dean’s important addition to the clarinet quartet repertoire…
Find out more »Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center: George Crumb at 90: Part I; Gloria Chien and Gilbert Kalish, Piano
When George Crumb’s music hit main stages in the early 1970s, he was proclaimed “the savior of music.” In an era in which proponents of atonal, abstract music dismissed all…
Find out more »Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center: George Crumb at 90: Part II; Gloria Chien and Gilbert Kalish, Piano
When George Crumb’s music hit main stages in the early 1970s, he was proclaimed “the savior of music.” In an era in which proponents of atonal, abstract music dismissed all…
Find out more »Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center: From Mendelssohn; Inon Barnatan, Piano
Mendelssohn’s combined mastery of melody, form, counterpoint, and the chamber idiom was admired and imitated by composers for generations to come. In a program bookended by two works of Mendelssohn…
Find out more »May 2019
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center: Deeply Inspired; Michael Brown, Piano
All music comes from the heart, but some clearly emerges from a composer’s most personal space. Composers from four eras and four cultures combine for this rare program which finds…
Find out more »Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center: Ballets Russes; Alessio Bax and Lucille Chung, Piano
Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, founded in Paris in 1909, generated ground-breaking artistic influence that lasts through today. Engineering collaborations between composers, choreographers, and visual artists, Diaghilev established a creative model…
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