April 11, 2017
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String Quintet No 1 in B flat major, K174 String Quintet No 2 in C minor, K406/516b String Quintet No 3 in C major, K515 Since their first appearance with us in 2008 we have experienced spirited music making on each visit by this dynamic Polish quartet. The Szymanowski Quartet joins forces … Continue reading Szymanowski Quartet & Richard O’Neill, viola
April 11, 2017
Johann Baptist Vanhal: String Quartet op. 6 #3 in C major Franz Asplmayr: String Quartet op. 2 #2 in D major Joseph Haydn: String Quartet op. 33 #1 in B minor Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet op. 18 #3 in D major Music for 2 violins, viola and ‘cello emerged in the mid-18th Century as … Continue reading The Eybler Quartet
April 11, 2017
Bach to the Future: The Legacy of the Fugue Johann Sebastian Bach: Art of the Fugue, BWV1080 (excerpts) Felix Mendelssohn: Fugue in Eb major, Op. 81 No. 4 Felix Mendelssohn: No. 2 Op. 13 in A minor Johann Sebastian Bach is the greatest composer of all time. However, it took another Leipzig composer, Felix Mendelssohn, … Continue reading The Diderot Quartet
April 11, 2017
Joseph Haydn: String Quartet in D major, Opus 50 No. 6 “The Frog” Samuel Barber: String Quartet in B minor, Opus 11 Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet in A minor, Opus 132 The Emerson String Quartet has been our top returning ensemble for many years – years in which to integrate their playing so perfectly … Continue reading Emerson String Quartet
April 11, 2017
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String quartet No 21 in D major, K575 Dmitri Shostakovich: String Quartet No 11 in F minor, Opus 122 Felix Mendelssohn: String Quartet No. 6 in F minor, Opus 80 The Takács Quartet is a perennial favourite with our audience, and in 2012, Gramophone announced that the group was the rst (and … Continue reading Takács String Quartet
April 11, 2017
Ludwig van Beethoven: Trio for strings in G major, Opus 9 No 1 Krzysztof Penderecki: Trio for strings (1990-91) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Divertimento for string trio in E- at major, K563 Each of these fine artists has performed for us before in various configurations, each time to the delight of our audiences. Paul Neubauer and … Continue reading CMS – String Trio
April 11, 2017
Igor Stravinsky: Concertino for string quartet Maurice Ravel: String Quartet in F major Antonín Dvořák: String Quartet in A- at major, Opus 105 We are happy to welcome back the exciting Pavel Haas Quartet. Of the great younger quartets today, they are the only ones we know that continue the burnished sound of the Bohemian … Continue reading Pavel Haas Quartet
April 11, 2017
Franz Schubert: Quartettsatz in C minor, D703 Piotr Tchaikovsky: Children’s Album, Opus 39 (arranged by Rostislav Dubinsky, original Borodin Qt 1st violin) Dmitri Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 6 in G major, Opus 101 Dmitri Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 13 in B at minor, Opus 138 The Borodin Quartet, founded in 1945, commands special respect in … Continue reading Borodin Quartet
April 12, 2016
Purchase Subscriptions Here Béla Bartók Contrasts for violin, clarinet & piano, Sz.111, BB116 Dmitri Shostakovich Trio for piano & strings in E minor, Opus 67 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Quintet for clarinet & strings in A major, K.581 A final Mozartian treat! For centuries, listeners have found refuge in the music of Mozart during times of … Continue reading Redemption: Mozart + CMS Clarinet, Piano & Strings
April 12, 2016
Purchase Subscriptions Here Ludwig Van Beethoven Trio in B flat major, Opus 97 “Archduke” Franz Schubert Trio in E flat major, Opus 100 Cellist David Finckel, violinist Philip Setzer, and pianist Wu Han make as fine a piano trio as the world knows. Given their résumés, this is no surprise: Finckel spent more than thirty … Continue reading Han Finckel Setzer Trio
