The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, hosted by Elliott Forrest, features performances by leading chamber music players from around the world. Programs feature enlightening commentary from CMS Co-Artistic Director David Finckel and the performers. Performing repertoire from over three centuries, and numerous premieres by living composers, CMS offers programs curated to provide listeners a comprehensive perspective on the art of chamber music.
Mikhail Glinka: Variations on a theme of Mozart
Michael Stephen Brown, piano
Mily Alekseyevich Balakirev: Song of the Goldfish
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky: Where are you, dear star?
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Arion, Op. 34, No. 5
Mikhail Glinka: The Lark from A Farewell to St. Petersburg
Sergei Rachmaninoff: These Summer Nights, Op. 14, No. 5
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Does not the wind, blowing from the heights from In Spring, Op. 43, No. 2
Erika Baikoff, soprano; Gilles Vonsattel, piano
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Wind Quintet in B-flat Major
Adam Walker, flute; David Shifrin, clarinet; Marc Goldberg, bassoon; David Byrd-Marrow, horn; Michael Stephen Brown, pianist
Giacomo Puccini: Scherzo
Orion String Quartet
Anton Reicha: Clarinet Quintet in B-flat Major, Op. 89
Tommaso Lonquich, clarinet; Alexi Kenney, Sean Lee, violin; Misha
Amory, viola; Nicholas Canellakis, cello
Zhao Jiping (arr. by Lin Zhao): Red Lantern
Wu Man, pipa; Shanghai Quartet
Josef Suk: String Quartet in A minor, Op. 1
Wu Han, piano; Daniel Hope, violin; Paul Neubauer, viola; David Finckel,
cello
Felix Mendelssohn: Pisno Trio No. 2 in C minor, Op. 66
Wu Han, piano; Arnaud Sussmann, violin; David Requiro, cello