Mæland / Aadland

Norwegian Academy of Music

Dame Sarah Connolly’s duo partnership with Joseph Middleton, forged over many years, rises from the telepathic understanding that passes between them whenever they make music. The celebrated mezzo-soprano’s ‘rapport with top Lieder pianist Joseph Middleton’, notes BBC Music Magazine, ‘allows for some very special interchanges’. Their recital includes treasures from Brahms’s Op. 57 collection and the hauntingly beautiful Late Romanticism of Webern’s Early Songs.

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Dame Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano; Joseph Middleton piano

Wigmore Hall

Vienna, early twentieth century. Under pressure from industrialization, the rise of psychoanalysis and growing social tensions, familiar world views are losing their footing and the refined styles of the fin de siècle their lustre. In music, literature and the visual arts, the boundaries of expression are being radically pushed back. Composers such as Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern and Alexander von Zemlinsky each sought, in their own way, a new sound idiom, rooted in late Romanticism but unmistakably turned towards the future. During this concert, Alain Altinoglu will showcase three of their masterpieces, all written at this turning point in European cultural history.

Vienna

BOZAR

With Guy Braunstein as leader and violin soloist, the Hong Kong Philharmonic strings embark on a journey from Mozart’s youthful brilliance to Pärt’s profound stillness. Webern’s lush early Romanticism and Vasks’s searching, spiritual Viatore lead to a thrilling conclusion in Mahler’s reimagining of Beethoven’s fiery “Serioso” Quartet for string orchestra.

The HK Phil Community Concert 2026: Evening of Quiet Reflection

Hong Kong Cultural Centre

Meisterkurs der Internationalen Ensemble Modern Akademie

epoche_f international

Frankfurt LAB

Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität

Landesmusikakademie Niedersachsen

One of today's most exciting young ensembles, the Isidore String Quartet joins forces with pianist Jeremy Denk for a powerful season-opening concert. Winners of the 2022 Banff Competition, the Isidore Quartet brings fearless energy and fresh insight to Schumann's radiant Piano Quintet in E-flat Major and Brahms's passionate F Minor Quintet, with MacArthur Fellow Denk adding his signature imagination and wit.

Friends of Chamber Music: Isidore String Quartet & Jeremy Denk, piano

Robert & Judi Newman Center for the Performing Arts

Chamber music concert featuring string quartets by Debussy, Webern, and Beethoven

Arild Kvartetten

KUMUS

Musik für 3 Streicher, a product of the composer’s mid-20s, sets out to encompass the span of human emotions and experience. Ilya Gringolts, Lawrence Power and Nicolas Altstaedt begin their expedition through the string trio repertoire with two movements from Wolfgang Rihm’s monumental work. Their programme also includes the remarkable Ricercari by Roman Haubenatock-Ramati, who escaped Nazi and Stalinist persecution to join General Anders’s Polish Army and survived the Second World War to become editor of new music for Universal Edition in Vienna.

Ilya Gringolts violin; Lawrence Power viola; Nicolas Altstaedt cello

L'Ensemble Cordance celebrates chamber music: voice and piano sublimate the lied and mélodie, intimate poetry and emotion. By inventing the mélodie with orchestra, Berlioz gave the genre an entirely different scope, and he was followed by composers such as Chausson and Ravel. The expressive possibilities of the genre inspired the ensemble Cordance to transcribe for voice and string quartet a number of mélodies by Chausson and several lieder by Brahms, featured in the program of this concert.

The Art of the Mélodie

Le Corum

Be there at Dominion Energy Center for intimate early evenings in Mooney Hall. Chamber music masterworks performed by members of the Richmond Symphony and friends. Settle into your seat for an enchanted hour of music. Then stroll downtown for dinner.

Summer Serenades 2

Dominion Energy Center

The title is not misleading – Anton Webern's "Im Sommerwind" (In the Summer Wind) from 1904 is indeed an unclouded orchestral idyll, still firmly in the tradition of Liszt, Wagner, and Strauss. Almost nothing betrays the future avant-garde artist – except perhaps the 20-year-old's already perceptible sensitivity for the finest sound blends. The germ of Mahler's Second Symphony was also a one-movement symphonic poem. It was initially titled "Totenfeier" (Funeral Celebration). This ultimately evolved into the five-movement "Resurrection Symphony," which transcends all boundaries in every respect. The finale, based on the chorale "Aufersteh'n, ja aufersteh'n wirst Du" (Resurrection, yes you will rise), features a huge orchestra, an equally large choir, and two vocal soloists, unfolding with poignant power.

8th Symphony Concert

Eurogress Aachen

Musical modernism in the 20th Century, contrary to views expressed by conservative critics, came in an arresting diversity of styles, as Hugo Ticciati and Pierre-Laurent Aimard confirm with their choice of recital repertoire. Messiaen’s yearning Theme and Variations raises the curtain on the rhapsodic intensity of Schoenberg’s last instrumental work and Janáček’s impassioned Sonata, before the programme turns to music by three gloriously individual American moderns.

Hugo Ticciati violin; Pierre-Laurent Aimard piano

Thursday Concert No. 9

Volkshaus Jena

Founded in Vienna in 2019 and based on the principles of “chaos” in art, science, and philosophy, the Chaos String Quartet has quickly established itself on the international music scene. The ensemble, comprised of musicians from Germany, Hungary, Italy, and the Netherlands, has been selected as a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist for 2023–2025. As part of this program, they frequently record for BBC Radio 3 and perform at some of the UK’s most prestigious festivals and concert halls, including Wigmore Hall, the Cheltenham Music Festival, Britten Pears Arts, and the Norfolk and Norwich Festival.

Chaos String Quartet

Konservatorium Bern

Two great masters of counterpoint meet in this transcription by Anton Webern of the six-part ricercare from  Das Musikalische Opfer  ( The Musical Offering ) by Johann Sebastian Bach. This transcription, written between November 1934 and January 1935, made a notable contribution to the knowledge and dissemination of the Musical Offering  , which had unfortunately fallen into oblivion, as had other works by Bach. While Mendelssohn's celebrated performance of the  Matthäus Passion  ( St. Matthew Passion ) in Berlin on March 11, 1829,  had sparked the so-called  Bach Renaissance  and, thus, the rediscovery of the great German composer's work,  the Musical Offering  had remained largely forgotten. This may find some justification in the intellectualistic nature of this work, born almost by chance on a theme composed by the monarch Frederick II of Prussia, a flautist and composer of good calibre, at whose court Bach's second son, Carl Philipp Emanuel, had worked as a harpsichordist since 1741. The meeting with the sovereign musician is described in a chronicle published in a Potsdam newspaper on May 11, 1747: "We learn that last Sunday, May 7, the famous Kapellmeister of Leipzig, Herr Bach, arrived with the intention of enjoying and listening to the excellent music of the local royal court. In the evening, around the time when the usual chamber music usually begins in the royal apartments, His Majesty was informed that Herr Bach had arrived in Potsdam and was now in His Majesty's antechamber, where he was awaiting the most gracious permission to listen to the music. His Majesty immediately gave the order to have him enter, and once inside, he went to the so-called  Forte and Piano  and was pleased to play himself, without any preparation, a theme that  Kappellmeister  Bach was to develop into a fugue. This was done so skillfully by the aforementioned  Kappellmeister  that not only His Majesty wanted to demonstrate his most gracious satisfaction, but also everyone else." Those present were amazed. Mr. Bach found the theme given to him so extraordinarily beautiful that he intends to put it on paper and develop it into a regular fugue, and then engrave it on a plate. On Monday, this famous man performed on the organ of the Church of the Holy Spirit, winning general approval from the large audience. In the evening, His Majesty again commissioned him to perform a six-part fugue, which, to His Majesty's delight and everyone's amazement, he executed as skillfully as before.

Bach-Webern/Berg /Mahler

Teatro Politeama Garibaldi

The Maximum for the City - Ars Sonora

Orto Botanico di Palermo

You can simply go to a concert at the Philharmonie, spontaneously, during your lunch break – and with free admission: every Wednesday at 13:00 between September and June. The programme lasts 40 to 50 minutes: chamber music, piano works or a percussion duo – everything from Tchaikovsky to tango. Members of the Berliner Philharmoniker and the Karajan-Akademie regularly perform, as well as guests from the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester, the Staatskapelle Berlin and the Berlin music conservatories. As can be expected at a lunch concert, catering is available from 12 noon until shortly before the concert begins.

Lunch concert

Berliner Philharmoniker

String Quartet: Ludwig van Beethoven, Kaija Saariaho, Anton Webern, Felix Mendelssohn

The Clio Quartet

Varbergs Teater

Prokofiev asks for astonishing skill from every musician in his tour-de-force concerto. For his part, Strauss invites the artists to become storytellers in A Hero’s Life. With the New Jersey Symphony, Xian Zhang brings these two epics to life, and all the artists are joined by the young Italian-American violinist Francesca Dego.

Xian Conducts Prokofiev & Strauss

Count Basie Center for the Arts

New Jersey Performing Arts Center

“This is an artist we need to hear more of,” says The New York Times of pianist David Fray; Fray joins the MSO to perform Mozart’s sprightly “Jeunehomme” concerto, dedicated to the talented young pianist who inspired its music. Guest conductor Katharina Wincor leads a masterwork by another bright young talent, Shostakovich — his mischievous First Symphony, penned when he was a conservatory student, launched the composer’s career and remains one of his most celebrated contributions to music.

Wincor Conducts Shostakovich No. 1

Warner Grand Theater

The Viano Quartet continues to amaze listeners nationwide, and their program at CMS shows the remarkable range of their repertoire. After firmly establishing their Classical and Romantic credentials with delightful Haydn and effervescent Mendelssohn, the Viano moves to the 20th century with Webern’s hyper-expressive single movement, followed by Shostakovich’s 9th Quartet, which builds through five interconnected sections to a pinnacle of orchestral intensity.

The Viano Quartet

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

Bienen School associate professor of violin Jinjoo Cho and special guests present a powerful recital culminating a week-long colloquium devoted to 20th-century American composer George Rochberg, titled Unearthing Love and Grief in George Rochberg’s Third String Quartet. The event highlights the dramatic and deeply personal transformation in Rochberg’s musical voice following the loss of his teenage son—a shift that ignited spirited debate across the musical world.

Jinjoo Cho and Friends

Mary B. Galvin Recital Hall

What happens when music breathes, when sound drifts like mist, or lingers like falling rain? For Japanese composer Tōru Takemitsu, silence was as meaningful as any note. One of the most important voices of the postwar era, Takemitsu drew deep inspiration from nature, composing music that feels both intimate and expansive, rooted in stillness and mystery. 

In Between Sound and Silence, the London Sinfonietta brings Takemitsu’s world to life. You'll hear his beautiful, meditative works such as - Rain Coming, and And Then I Knew ’Twas Wind - alongside music by composers who inspired him, including Debussy, Messiaen, and Webern. Their influence helped shape Takemitsu’s unique sound: rich in colour, alive with detail, yet always deeply human. 

Toru Takemitsu: Between Sound And Silence

Southbank Centre

Ars Sonora - String Quartet of the Massimo Youth Orchestra

Teatro Massimo di Palermo

Takemitsu - Portsmouth

Guildhall Square

A major chapter in string quartet history is coming to a close: After more than 40 years as an ensemble, the Hagen Quartet is entering its final season. They bring a program to the Elbphilharmonie that revives the highlights of recent decades with works by Mozart, Schubert, and Weber.

Hagen Quartet

Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

Described by Strad Magazine as being, “vigorous, extrovert and emphatic players with a vitality all their own,” the Nisaika Quartet’s origins go back to the 1980s at the Curtis Institute of Music. Four chamber-music-hungry friends and classmates, coached by Karen Tuttle and Felix Galimir, went on to win Deuxième Prix at the 8e Concours International de Quatuors à Cordes, a moment described as one of the greatest adventures of their musical lives. After finishing their undergraduate studies, this group of tenacious young musicians went their separate ways to pursue graduate and job opportunities, but always found themselves connected through the years. Now, after more than four decades and four illustrious careers as performers and pedagogues, the Nisaika Quartet reunites for a very special performance, featuring works by Webern, Beethoven, Puccini and Brahms.

Masterful Strings: Nisaika 2.0- String Quartet Reunion with Friends

The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center

Making their debut, this ensemble features some of the leading string players in Europe and has toured throughout the UK and Belgium. Last summer, the quartet performed two concerts at the prestigious Lammermuir Festival in Scotland with one of their champions, Jeremy Denk.

Valo Quartet Union College

Union College

Jörg Widmann & Hagen Quartet

Blaibach Concert Hall

Formed in 2022, the Valo Quartet (Valo, meaning “light” in Finnish) unites four highly sought-after artists from across Europe. Their Philadelphia debut features cherished works by Debussy and Brahms, alongside the U.S. premiere of Soisin, Finnish composer Minna Leinonen’s homage to the swamps of her homeland.

Valo Quartet

Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

From Schubertian gloom to Webern's pointillism, via the splendor of Mozartian song, this concert offers a program of contrasts. One common denominator, however, and not the least: a passion for instrumental timbres!

rchestre de Paris / Lorenza Borrani

Philharmonie de Paris

Through a lens on five generations of the composer’s own family, from his great grandmother to his daughter, it tells a story of survival. From war, occupation and famine, The Relatives offers a unique perspective on a multi-ethnic Crimea that has maintained her humanity and sense of humour against all the odds.

The Relatives (Try Out)

CBSO Centre

Special Student Project: 20th and 21st Century Chamber Concertos: A Centennial Perspective

Manhattan School of Music

The DACAMERA audience favorites perform a characteristically intriguing and varied program. Haydn’s inventive classical works are daringly contrasted with 20th and 21st century quartets, including a recent work by award-winning composer/pianist Timo Andres.

Brentano String Quartet

The Menil Collection

What connects all three compositions? The rebellious spirit, the premonition of new times, their courage!

Pioneer Piano Quintet

Das MuTh

The first, deepest and most personal step into the world of music: Three works that left an indelible mark on the history of music.
With the Eroica, the symphony becomes personal: in this work we encounter the world seen through Beethoven's eyes. The symphony is a direct look into the composer's soul; death haunted Beethoven's thoughts when he realized that he was going deaf. The 3rd symphony is written as a heroic counterattack against a fate whose lot was heavier than Beethoven could bear.

Beethoven 3

Aarhus Music Hall

Klas Torstensson’s magnificent opera The Expedition tells the story of Andrée’s ill-fated Arctic journey – a subject that has fascinated Torstensson since his early teens. We hear Intermezzo and Epilogue from the opera – two sections that vividly reflect the contrasts in his music. The beautiful epilogue, a kind of aria based on letters and diary entries, comes strikingly close to Puccini in its lyrical depth.

Composer Festival – The Expedition

Stockholm City Hall

Volcanic forces, but also the most tender and heartbreakingly emotional music – Klas Torstensson moves between extremes. Born in Sweden but long based in the Netherlands, he is a composer with significant international reach. This year’s Composer Festival focuses primarily on his work from the past two decades, but also includes music from the early 1970s, making the festival a wide-ranging retrospective.

Composer Festival – Opening Concert

Exceptional South Korean pianist Yeol Eum Son has dazzled and delighted SCO audiences over the past couple of years with her exquisitely poetic playing and her exuberant enthusiasm. She is famed for her particularly meaningful insights in Mozart’s music, and she returns with two of the great composer’s most compelling concertos: the profoundly expressive No.21 and deeply dramatic No.24.

Yeol Eum Son plays Mozart

Aberdeen Music Hall

The Queen's Hall

City Halls

"Way back in the late 1950s I was a member of a large, self-governed chamber group called the Gramercy Chamber Ensemble. The group had strings, winds, brass, piano, and singers, and selected repertory during group meetings. One of the members blurted out that we should do this amazingly original work called Pierrot Lunaire. 'What is Pierrot Lunaire?' was the response of the members. One year and fifty rehearsals later we were mesmerized and excited by this work and desperate to perform it.

Gilbert Kalish at 90

Yunchan Lim, who at 18 became the youngest-ever winner of the Van Cliburn Competition, climbs the summit of Baroque keyboard music in Bach’s Goldberg Variations. A miraculous series of 30 transformations on a single theme — ranging from the contemplative to the euphoric — the Goldbergs are a showcase for Bach’s prismatic range and imagination.

Yunchan Lim

Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Their program includes Mozart’s String Quartet No. 19, the last in a series of six sophisticated quartets that he composed over three years (1782-85) and dedicated to Franz Joseph Haydn, universally recognized as the “father” of the string quartet. Beethoven’s last quartet — and the last major work he completed — closes the program.

Belcea Quartet

University of Michigan

The Five Pieces for String Quartet were the work with which Erwin Schulhoff achieved his breakthrough in Salzburg in 1924. The dedication to his French colleague Darius Milhaud reveals what he was aiming for: the concise brevity of the movements, the suite-like sequence, and the aphoristic treatment of the material. The "Five Pieces" are primarily rhythmically inspired, which is probably why one review described them as "nice and lively dance pieces." One should not be fooled by this pleasantness: Schulhoff experiments ingeniously with motivic, metrical, and harmonic forms.

In the middle of the 20th century

Bochumer Symphoniker

About the program  Dmitri Shostakovich is always an exciting acquaintance, which has taken on a new twist here, as his five preludes for piano from 1919-21 are performed at this concert in an arrangement for piano and cello by composer Lera Auerbach (born 1973).

Marianna Shirinyan & Torleif Thedéen

Mogens Dahl Koncertsal

The young dynamic Viano Quartet traces the evolution of the string quartet, from classical elegance to modern complexity. It opens with Haydn’s Quartet in D Major, Hob. III:79, Op. 76, No. 5, a lively and inventive work by the "father" of the string quartet, whose wit and mastery of form define the genre. Next is Mendelssohn’s Quartet in D Major, Op. 44, No. 1, blending lyrical beauty with energetic drive, showcasing the composer’s Romantic expressiveness. 

The Viano String Quartet

Saratoga Performing Arts Center

“As a young man I participated in an ensemble called the Gramercy Chamber Ensemble. It was a rather unwieldy group that had a full complement of strings, winds, brass, percussion, singers, and a pianist. We chose repertoire by consensus. When one of the members mentioned a work called Pierrot lunaire there were puzzled faces all around. When he described an orchestration consisting of flute-piccolo, violin-viola, clarinet-bass clarinet (each pair of these instruments played by one person), cello, piano, and a singer who did not really sing but performed a hybrid of singing and speaking on pitch, we were really perplexed.

Gilbert Kalish at 90: A Celebration

Menlo School Campus

Throughout history, the string quartet has offered composers a vehicle for their most compelling and deeply personal musical statements. The dynamic young Viano Quartet returns to Music@Menlo for a panorama of string quartet works including Anton Webern’s emotional Langsamer Satz, written at the twilight of the Romantic age, and Shostakovich’s electrifying ninth quartet.

Quartet Collection

Gustav Mahler and Arnold Schoenberg, bound by mutual admiration and great respect for one another, decisively shaped the music of the early 20th century and, with their innovative ideas, built a bridge between Romanticism and modernism. This evening, featuring works by both composers, unfolds a dialogue between two significant artistic visions that offer different answers to existential and personal questions while complementing each other.

One Morning Turns into an Eternity

Felsenreitschule

Symphony Orchestra in the Palace

Tonhalle Düsseldorf

The 2024/2025 season traditionally concludes with Music Director and Chief Conductor Emmanuel Villaume. The evening's honored solo position will be taken by outstanding violinist Romana Špačková, Prague Philharmonia's long-standing concertmaster.

The evening opens with Anton Webern's Passacaglia, an early work combining strong Romantic influences with experimental tendencies. The epic arch of this Baroque-inspired variation form sets the stage for the dramatic atmosphere of the early 20th century, which we'll fully explore in Dmitri Shostakovich's Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor. The post-war period during which the concerto was written marked another turbulent phase in the composer's life, as he faced intense criticism of his work and political persecution.

Webern. Shostakovich. Beethoven

Dvořák Hall Rudolfinum

Viotti, Gabetta · Saint-Saëns, Rimsky-Korsakov

Wiener Konzerthaus

“Ground-breaking implosions of the musical language of their time” – while being dismissed in their day at the dawn of the 20th century, the compositions of Schoenberg and Webern nowadays are understood as important milestones of music history, which also have a lasting influence on contemporary composers such as Enno Poppe and Beat Furrer.

With this concert under the baton of Katharina Wincor, Klangforum Wien returns to the wellspring of much contemporary music, the Second Viennese School, and will prove once again that it’s able to “reinvigorate the thrill of a concert with contemporary music”, as The New York Times once wrote.

Black holes from the Romantic era

Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ

Simone Young

Gasteig HP8

MSM Chamber Music Festival: MSM Artists in Residence: American String Quartet

Moments after becoming the youngest musician to ever win the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Yunchan Lim shared that the next piece he intended to learn for performance was J. S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations. Reporters—who had just witnessed the eagerly ambitious artist perform Liszt’s Transcendental Etudes in the competition, among other virtuoso achievements—couldn’t help but laugh in amazement. Now, just a year after his 2024 Carnegie Hall debut, the global superstar returns to perform Bach’s crowning keyboard achievement.

Yunchan Lim, Piano

Carnegie Hall

### Event Description: Yunchan Lim, Piano Recital

**Date and Time:** Wednesday, April 23, 2025, at 7:30 PM  
**Venue:** Hill Auditorium, 825 North University Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

**Event Overview:**
Join us for an extraordinary evening of piano music featuring the prodigious talent of Yunchan Lim. This recital marks Lim's UMS debut, closing out the 24/25 Choral Union Series with a performance that promises to be both captivating and memorable.

**Program:**
- **Anton Webern:** Variations for Piano, Op. 27
- **J.S. Bach:** Goldberg Variations, BWV 998

**About the Artist:**
Yunchan Lim, the youngest musician to win the prestigious Van Cliburn Competition at age 18, has been hailed for his profound musicality and prodigious technique. His performance of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with Orchestre de Paris in March 2024 left audiences in awe, prompting an immediate invitation for this recital. Lim's interpretation of Bach’s Goldberg Variations will showcase his ability to transform a simple theme into an epic journey through different time signatures, textures, and harmonies.

**Tickets:**
- **Season Ticket Packages:** Available now
- **Individual Event Tickets:** On sale starting August 1
- **Discounts:** Student, Senior, and Group discounts may be available

**Sponsors:**
- **Principal Sponsor:** Shaomeng Wang and Ju-Yun Li
- **Supporting Sponsor:** Rachel and Daniel Feder, in honor of Leslie and Mary Ellen Guinn

**Contact Information:**
- **Box Office:** 734-764-2538

Don't miss this opportunity to witness a performance by one of the most exciting young pianists of our time. Secure your tickets early and be part of an unforgettable musical experience.

When Akiko Suwanai won the renowned Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1990, she was just 18 years old. It was also the start of an international career, during which the Japanese violinist has been a guest in Duisburg several times. Now she is returning with an exciting program, together with the Argentinian José Gallardo, who is one of the most sought-after chamber music pianists and is making his debut in Duisburg with this concert. The duo evening begins with Ludwig van Beethoven's Violin Sonata No. 6, the dramatic style of which was the composer's immediate reaction to his increasing deafness. Erich Wolfgang Korngold's suite "Much Ado About Nothing", which is based on his symphonic incidental music for Shakespeare's play of the same name, then tells of the changing feelings of a young woman in love, while the chromatically sharpened "Four Pieces" by Anton Webern explore dynamic extremes between barely audible tones and blatant fortissimo outbursts. The final work is Schumann’s Opus 121, a work that its creator explicitly described as a “great” sonata – which refers both to its dimensions and to the demands placed on virtuoso playing.

Akiko Suwanai & Jose Gallardo

Philharmonie Mercatorhalle

When Akiko Suwanai won the renowned Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1990, she was just 18 years old. It was also the start of an international career, during which the Japanese violinist has been a guest in Duisburg several times. Now she is returning with an exciting program, together with the Argentinian José Gallardo, who is one of the most sought-after chamber music pianists and is making his debut in Duisburg with this concert. The duo evening begins with Ludwig van Beethoven's Violin Sonata No. 6, the dramatic style of which was the composer's immediate reaction to his increasing deafness. Erich Wolfgang Korngold's suite "Much Ado About Nothing", which is based on his symphonic incidental music for Shakespeare's play of the same name, then tells of the changing feelings of a young woman in love, while the chromatically sharpened "Four Pieces" by Anton Webern explore dynamic extremes between barely audible tones and blatant fortissimo outbursts. The final work is Schumann’s Opus 121, a work that its creator explicitly described as a “great” sonata – which refers both to its dimensions and to the demands placed on virtuoso playing.


We all know deep feelings of grief, despair and loneliness and are connected to all of humanity through them. Becoming aware of this can be comforting and dealing with these emotions can even have a healing effect. Peter Tchaikovsky's 4th Symphony is pain turned into sound and the expression of a deep personal crisis: his unhappy marriage plunged the homosexual composer into depression, and death seemed to him the only way out.

6th Symphony Concert

Georg-Friedrich-Händel-Halle

Erwin-Piscator-Hau

Join us for an exquisite afternoon of chamber music as the Dover Quartet, hailed as "the young American string quartet of the moment" by The New Yorker, graces the stage with the renowned pianist Marc-André Hamelin. This remarkable collaboration is set to take place at the Bing Concert Hall on Sunday, March 9, 2025, at 2:30 PM, presented by Stanford Live.

The Dover Quartet, celebrated for its distinctive sound that the Philadelphia Inquirer claims can be "easily identified within mere minutes," will perform alongside Marc-André Hamelin, a pianist of "near-superhuman technical prowess" according to the New York Times. This performance promises to be a memorable experience, showcasing the talents of some of the most acclaimed musicians of our time.

The program for the afternoon includes Anton Webern's Langsamer Satz, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Quartet in D major, K. 575, and Marc-André Hamelin's own Piano Quintet. These pieces highlight the ensemble's innovative programming and imaginative interpretations, qualities that have earned the Dover Quartet widespread acclaim.

Tickets for this event start at $32, offering a range of seating options to accommodate all attendees. The lobby will open at 1:30 PM, an hour before the performance begins, allowing guests to enjoy beverages, light bites, and snacks available for sale.

Don't miss this opportunity to witness the Dover Quartet and Marc-André Hamelin in a performance that promises to be both breathtaking and deeply moving. Secure your tickets now for an afternoon that celebrates the beauty and power of chamber music at its finest.

Dover Quartet with Marc-André Hamelin

Stanford University

Considered a “brilliant musician and an extraordinary visionary” (The Wall Street Journal), French pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard enjoys an internationally celebrated career. As a master performer of Beethoven, Aimard recorded Beethoven’s entire catalogue of piano concertos and both the “Hammerklavier” Sonata and “Eroica Variations.” He is widely acclaimed as a key figure in the music of our time and has had close collaborations with many leading composers including György Ligeti, whose complete works for piano he has recorded. Praised by The Guardian as “one of the best Messiaen interpreters around,” Aimard has had a close association to the composer himself and with Yvonne Loriod, with whom he studied at the Paris Conservatoire.

Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano

The Royal Conservatory of Music

Yunchan Lim stunned the music world in 2022 when he became the youngest ever winner of the prestigious Van Cliburn Piano Competition.  His performance of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 has since been watched more than 12 million times on YouTube.

YUNCHAN LIM, piano

War Memorial and Performing Arts Center

Mendelssohn was a poet in sound, and when his beloved sister died, he poured all his anguish into a string quartet like no other. The Grosvenor Quartet steps into his imagination today.

Grosvenor String Quartet

The Music Room

Join us for an extraordinary evening of classical music featuring LSU alumni Rossitza Jekova-Goza and Vesselin Todorov alongside LSU’s renowned string faculty Kimberly Sparr, Dennis Parker, and Espen Lilleslatten. This concert, dedicated to the memory of LSU Violin Professor Kevork Mardirossian, will showcase Brahms' String Quintet in G, Beethoven's String Quartet Op. 18 No. 2, and Webern's Langsamer Satz.

An Evening of String Chamber Music: Featuring LSU Alumni Jekova-Goza

Louisiana State University

The NY Phil marks the centennial of Pierre Boulez, a former Music Director and innovative programmer, by remounting one of the programs he curated and conducted. David Robertson conducts the concert, originally performed in 1975, that explores connections among works by composers ranging from J.S. Bach and Schubert to his own Pli selon pl



A Tribute to Boulez

David Geffen Hall

We can only imagine how much courage, self-confidence and steadfastness the African-American Julia Perry had to muster on her way to becoming a composer, at a time when the doors of classical music were not open to women or people of color. And yet she pursued her goal unswervingly, studying first with Luigi Dallapiccola and later with the legendary Nadia Boulanger. Her career began in 1951 with the "Stabat Mater", but it was never given the attention it deserved. A fate that Florence Price had already suffered at the end of the 19th century. She was also a woman and an African-American - and, against all odds, managed to compose an impressive number of around 300 compositions. And a century earlier, Joseph Bologne also had to struggle with racism and discrimination, for he was born in Guadeloupe to a slave and a French nobleman and was later admired at the court of Paris as the "black Mozart". With Brandon Keith Brown, the conductor is vehemently committed to ensuring that people of color, both past and present, are finally given the attention they deserve. As part of the "New Ways" project "Music-Axis-Times", the concert aims to help finally establish this repertoire that has been suppressed for too long and to give people of color a visible place on the stage.

Silenced Black Voices

Anton Webern came up with the idea of ​​a string quartet in 1905 during a hiking holiday with his cousin Wilhelmine Mörtl, with whom he had fallen madly in love and whom he married in 1911. The work remained a fragment, and Webern only completed the slow movement. This is almost orchestral in nature, the harmony largely tonal, even though Webern certainly explores its limits - but always with references to the sound world of late Romanticism.

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Anneliese Brost Musikforum Ruhr

Chamber Music Concert III

Oper Frankfurt

Asia tour with Sir Simon Rattle 5

ARK Hills

Asia tour with Sir Simon Rattle 2

Lotte World Mall

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The New Series | Schoenberg and Beyond

The Juilliard School

Two musical Dames at the very tops of their respective professions – Dame Sarah Connolly received The King’s Medal for Music in 2023, whilst Dame Imogen Cooper received the late Queen’s Medal for Music in 2019 – once again join together in recital as they previously have to considerable acclaim at such venues as the Cheltenham Festival and the Oxford International Song Festival. ‘The warm relationship between both performers came across in their performance and the audience was delighted’, wrote the Henley Standard. The programme includes songs both familiar and unfamiliar , including Loewe’s setting of texts better known from Schumann and examples by the neglected Swiss composer Othmar Schoeck.

Dame Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano; Dame Imogen Cooper piano

Sir Simon Rattle 4

January Chamber Concert

Hudson Library & Historical Society

Soprano singer Claire Booth, pianist Alasdair Beatson and musicians from Royal Northern Sinfonia together under the direction of Maria Wloszczowska.

Anton Webern

Events

Upcoming events

Nov 8, 2026

Benjamin Appl baritone; Jerusalem Quartet · Wigmore Hall

Dec 6, 2026

Miró String Quartet · Chamber Music Marin

11 - 12 Dec, 2026

Adventurers - Măcelaru & Strauss · WDR Sinfonieorchester

Mar 3, 2027

Javier Perianes plays Schumann · London Philharmonic Orchestra

Mar 14, 2027

Steve Reich at 90 · New World Symphony

Past events

Oct 28, 2026

Mæland / Aadland · Norwegian Academy of Music

Oct 27, 2026

Dame Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano; Joseph Middleton piano · Wigmore Hall

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