The opening program of the Friends of Chamber Music Fifty-First Season celebrates American Landscapes across three unique works. Barber’s youthful Serenade Opus 1 announces a remarkable compositional voice, already brimming with signature lyricism. Amy Beach’s Piano Quintet is a towering achievement of American Romanticism — brooding and passionate. We close with Dvořák’s “American” Quintet, composed during his […]
The spellbinding Gabriela Montero brings a program shaped by the many voices of Spain: from the courtly sonatas of Soler and Scarlatti to the poetic nationalism of Granados, Albéniz, Mompou, and Alicia de Larrocha, and finally to the Spanish-inspired worlds of Chopin and Liszt. Venezuelan-born and internationally celebrated as both a pianist and an improviser, […]
The Friends presents a fascinating program in collaboration with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. An exceptional cast of seven artists, including harpsichordist Kenneth Weiss, one of today’s foremost interpreters of Bach, offers a rare performance of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Musical Offering — a work that stands at the summit of contrapuntal art. Written […]
Sir Stephen Hough brings to the Art of the Piano a recital built around the idea of the Klavierstück, the short piano piece in its many forms. From Schubert and Brahms, where the miniature becomes concentrated lyricism, to Schoenberg and Stockhausen, where it turns inward, compressed, and experimental, the program traces how composers used brevity […]
Espressivo! Piano Quartet unites distinguished chamber musicians from two generations: violinist Jaime Laredo and cellist Sharon Robinson, long celebrated for their work in the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio, join pianist Anna Polonsky and violist Milena Pájaro-van de Stadt in a program that moves from Classical poise to contemporary reflection and Brahmsian intensity. Mozart’s Piano Quartet in E-flat […]
