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 »Martin Fröst, Clarinet, and Henrik Måwe, Piano, at Lincoln Center
Program Brahms: Sonata in E-flat major, Op. 120, No. 2 Plus works by Telemann and Vivaldi There is no better champion of the clarinet today than Martin Fröst, whose performances…
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
Wednesdays at One: Juilliard Wind Orchestra, at Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center
Wednesdays at One: Juilliard Wind Orchestra Program Alan Kay, conductor RAFF Sinfonietta, Op. 188 SCHOENBERG Chamber Symphony No. 1, Op. 9 Juilliard artists share their talent with the community in…
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 »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
Juilliard Songfest, at Lincoln Center
Juilliard Songfest Program Brian Zeger, curator and pianist
Find out more »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 »Juilliard Wednesdays at One: Music for Piano, at Lincoln Center
Wednesdays at One: Music for Piano Program Juilliard artists share their talent with the community in these free, hour-long lunchtime concerts on Wednesday afternoons throughout the season.
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 »Takács Quartet, at Lincoln Center
Program Brahms: String Quartet in A minor, Op. 51, No. 2 Schubert: Piano Quintet in A major (“Trout”) For this second of two performances in the 2018/19 season, the Takács…
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
New Juilliard Ensemble, at Lincoln Center
New Juilliard Ensemble Program Joel Sachs, conductor Max Tan, violin Sato MATSUI (Japan/U.S.) New work TBD (2018; commissioned by NJE) Ross GRIFFEY New work TBD (2018; commissioned by NJE) Jukka…
Find out more »Piotr Anderszewski Solo Recital at Lincoln Center
Program Bach: Selected Preludes and Fugues from the Well-tempered Clavier, Book II Beethoven: 33 Variations on a Waltz by Diabelli, Op. 120 An artist who is always pushing further to…
Find out more »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 »Joshua Bell, Violin; Steven Isserlis, Cello; Jeremy Denk, Piano, at Lincoln Center
Program Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No. 2 in C minor Shostakovich: Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor Rachmaninoff: Trio élégiaque Ravel: Piano Trio Three close friends, three virtuoso musicians, one…
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…
Find out more »Juilliard Orchestra Commencement Concert, at Lincoln Center
Juilliard Orchestra Commencement Concert Program Matthias Pintscher, conductor Piano soloist to be announced RAVEL La Valse RAVEL Piano Concerto in G Major RAVEL Daphnis et Chloé: Suite No. 2
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