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October 2024
Concert Calendar
Updated Oct 8, 2024
Opening Night with Pinchas Zukerman
October 15
Sebastian Manz, Clarinet, and Danae Dörken, Piano
October 17
Beethoven Trilogy I: The Early Period
October 20-27
Hummel and Prokofiev
October 31
† Indicates that this artist is a current Bowers Program member.
Tuesday October 15, 2024, 7:30 PM
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center • Alice Tully Hall
OPENING NIGHT: HAYDN’S SURPRISE
PINCHAS ZUKERMAN, Violin
Due to family illness Stephanie Blythe has withdrawn from Opening Night’s Haydn Surprise concert.
The season opens with an all-Haydn program featuring superstar violinist Pinchas Zukerman, who performs the solo role in Haydn’s Concerto in C major for Violin and Strings. Michael Stephen Brown, Aaron Boyd, and Co-Artistic Director David Finckel will perform Haydn’s Piano Trio in C major.The ensemble also includes CMS veterans and co-artistic director and pianist Wu Han as well as violinist Daniel Phillips and violist Paul Neubauer and members of the 2024-2027 Bowers Program, bassist Nina Bernat and the Viano Quartet, among others. The grand finale is the iconic “Surprise” Symphony in its rarely-heard chamber configuration for piano, flute, two violins, viola, and cello.
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Joseph Haydn
Quartet in B-flat major for Strings, “Sunrise" (1797)
Concerto in C major for Violin, Strings, and Harpsichord (1761–65)
Trio in C major for Piano, Violin, and Cello, Hob. XV:27 (1795–96)
Symphony in G major for Piano, Flute, Two Violins, Viola, and Cello, “Surprise” (1791)
Michael Stephen Brown, Piano/Harpsichord • Wu Han, Piano • Aaron Boyd, Daniel Phillips, Pinchas Zukerman, Violin • Paul Neubauer, Viola • David Finckel, Cello • Nina Bernat†, Double Bass • Viano Quartet† (Lucy Wang, Hao Zhou, Violin • Aiden Kane, Viola • Tate Zawadiuk, Cello) • Tara Helen O’Connor, Flute
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Clarinetist Sebastian Manz
Thursday October 17, 2024, 7:30 PM
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center • Rose Studio at CMS
ART OF THE RECITAL: SEBASTIAN MANZ & DANAE DÖRKEN
The masterful, award-winning German clarinetist Sebastian Manz welcomes his friend and collaborator, pianist Danae Dörken, for a program focusing on the late 19th and 20th centuries, with works by Gade, Messager, Lutosławski, Verdi/Bassi, Horovitz, Rossini, and Jörg Widmann. “Each work on this program represents a milestone from a certain time period in my career as a clarinetist,” says Manz. “At the same time, every work also reflects a different European composing style, with each composer on the program coming from a different country, except Verdi and Rossini. Both halves of the recital conclude ‘in Italy,’ so this odyssey can be interpreted either as a journey through my personal past and artistic oeuvre or as a journey through European Classical Music of the last 200 years (or both).”
Niels Gade Fantasiestücke for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 43 (1864)
André Messager Solo de concours for Clarinet and Piano (1899)
Witold Lutosławski Dance Preludes for Clarinet and Piano (1954)
Giuseppe Verdi Concert Fantasia on Motives from Rigoletto for Clarinet and Piano (1865)
Jörg Widmann Fünf Bruchstücke (Five Fragments) for Clarinet and Piano (1997)
Joseph Horovitz Sonatina for Clarinet and Piano (1981)
Gioachino Rossini Introduction, Theme, and Variations for Clarinet and Piano (1819, arr. Michaels 1960)
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The Calidore String Quartet, which performs the complete cycle of Beethoven's String Quartets at CMS this season.
THE BEETHOVEN TRILOGY I: EARLY PERIOD
Sun Oct 20 ◾ Tues Oct 22 ◾ Fri Oct 25 ◾ Sun Oct 27
The Beethoven Trilogy at CMS is a unique, in-depth series of 12 concerts that focus on Beethoven’s three distinct and storied compositional periods. Six of the 12 concerts are devoted to Beethoven’s complete string quartets performed by the Calidore Quartet, which just released its award-winning recording of the late Quartets for Signum; the Middle Quartets are being released this week (September 13), and the final set, Early Quartets, is slated for release in January 2025. Complementing the complete Quartet cycle is a series of programs that explore music composed by Beethoven and other composers in the corresponding periods of their careers.
Sunday, October 20, 2024, 5:00 PM
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center • Alice Tully Hall
BEETHOVEN TRILOGY I: EARLY BARTÓK and BEETHOVEN
Bartók’s early venture into classical forms shines through in his Piano Quintet, reflecting a lifelong fascination with Hungarian folk tunes. Beethoven’s Septet, composed during a similar point in his career, is a masterpiece for its unusual instrumentation and vibrant melodies.
Béla Bartók Quintet for Piano, Two Violins, Viola, and Cello, BB 33 (1903–04, rev. 1920)
Ludwig van Beethoven Septet in E-flat major for Winds and Strings, Op. 20 (1800)
Gilles Vonsattel, Piano • Benjamin Beilman, Ida Kavafian, Violin • Yura Lee, Viola • David Requiro, Cello • Nina Bernat†, Double Bass • Sebastian Manz, Clarinet • Marc Goldberg, Bassoon • David Byrd-Marrow, Horn
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Tuesday October 22, 2024, 7:30 PM
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center • Alice Tully Hall
BEETHOVEN TRILOGY I: BEETHOVEN QUARTET CYCLE I
Calidore String Quartet
CMS has presented the Beethoven Quartets multiple times and in different ways. The first quartet to perform the cycle was the Emerson, with David Finckel on cello, in 1987. It has since been presented at CMS by three other masterful quartets: the Orion, Takács and Danish String Quartets. The Calidore becomes the next in line, beginning with Beethoven’s first quartets.
Beethoven Opus 18, Nos. 1, 2 & 3
Calidore String Quartet: Jeffrey Myers, Ryan Meehan, Violin • Jeremy Berry, Viola • Estelle Choi, Cello
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Pianist Juho Pohjonen
Friday October 25, 2024, 7:30 PM
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center • Alice Tully Hall
BEETHOVEN TRILOGY I: EARLY BEETHOVEN, CORIGLIANO, AND BRAHMS
One of Beethoven’s first piano trios, composed at age 25, is followed by a work commissioned by CMS in 1970 from a 32-year-old John Corigliano, based on a Dylan Thomas poem that begins “It was my 30th birthday…” Brahms's first Piano Quartet was composed at the age of 28.
Beethoven Trio in C minor for Piano, Violin, and Cello, Op. 1, No. 3 (1794–95)
Corigliano CMS Commission: Poem in October for Tenor, Winds, Strings and Harpsichord (1970)
Brahms Quartet No. 1 in G minor for Piano, Violin, Viola, and Cello, Op. 25 (1860–61)
Paul Appleby, Tenor • Juho Pohjonen, Piano • Sahun Sam Hong† , Harpsichord • Stella Chen, Chad Hoopes, Violin • Paul Neubauer, Viola • Dmitri Atapine, Cello • Sooyun Kim, Flute • James Austin Smith, Oboe • Tommaso Lonquich, Clarinet
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Sunday October 27, 2024, 5:00 PM
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center • Alice Tully Hall
BEETHOVEN TRILOGY I: BEETHOVEN QUARTET CYCLE II
Calidore String Quartet
Beethoven Opus 18, Nos. 4, 5 & 6
Calidore String Quartet: Jeffrey Myers, Ryan Meehan, Violin • Jeremy Berry, Viola • Estelle Choi, Cello
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Thursday, October 31, 2024, 6:30 & 9:00 PM
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center • Rose Studio at CMS
HUMMEL & PROKOFIEV
An international ensemble of celebrated artists come together for an intimate evening of chamber music for strings and winds in CMS's Rose Studio. The 6:30 PM performance offers traditional seating, and the 9:00 PM performance, also available via livestream, offers cabaret-style seating with a complimentary glass of wine and snacks.
Johann Hummel Quartet in E-flat major for Clarinet, Violin, Viola, and Cello (1808)
Sergei Prokofiev Quintet in G minor for Oboe, Clarinet, Violin, Viola, and Bass, Op. 39 (1924)
Julian Rhee†, Violin • Yura Lee, Viola • Jonathan Swensen†, Cello • Nina Bernat†, Double Bass • James Austin Smith, Oboe • Tommaso Lonquich, Clarinet
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