The timeless art of the recital is perpetuated in the hands of present-day masters of the genre. Experience the musical journeys crafted by these thrilling performers in the intimate Rose Studio.

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Art of the Recital: Gilbert Kalish

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Art of the Recital: Tommaso Lonquich & Gilles Vonsattel

In his String Quartet in A-flat major, Op.105, Dvořák fuses his profound love for his country’s folk music with a technical mastery gleaned from Schubert and Brahms to create an inspired, poignant masterpiece of chamber music.

Inside Chamber Music: Dvořák’s String Quartet in A-flat major

Considered a musical reactionary by some musicians in his time and declared a progressive innovator by Arnold Schönberg, Brahms saw himself as hard-working craftsman and perfectionist.

Inside Chamber Music: Brahms’s Piano Trio in C major

Renowned as the composer of 16 Hollywood film scores, including The Adventures of Robin Hood and The Sea Hawk, Erich Wolfgang Korngold — a child prodigy coincidentally named after Mozart — was also the composer of operas, concerti, orchestral works, and chamber music. His lush, melodic, and intensely romantic piano quintet, completed in 1921, goes straight to the heart — without Olivia de Haviland or Errol Flynn.

Inside Chamber Music: Korngold’s Piano Quintet in E major

Bruce Adolphe will explore how Beethoven’s last string quartet, Opus 135, was inspired by the composer’s personal experiences ranging from a humorous conversation to the tragedy of his deafness.

Inside Chamber Music: Beethoven’s String Quartet in F major, Op. 135

The endless creativity of Johann Sebastian Bach is on full display in this first-ever CMS pairing of his sonatas for violin and viola da gamba with keyboard.

Bach's Sonatas

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Composed in 1939, Bartók’s String Quartet No.6 depicts a profound sorrow that gradually overwhelms a series of attempts to break free from its clutches. Typically, Bartók creates a unique compositional structure that serves his powerful artistic vision in a work that speaks for humanity in a deeply personal manner.

Inside Chamber Music: Bartók’s String Quartet No. 6

As preludes to the Beach, fanciful works by Beethoven and Schumann lead to the intense sonic and rhythmic world of Erwin Schulhoff, whose bracing duo for violin and cello rivals those by his contemporaries Ravel and Kodály.

Beethoven to Beach

A work of poignant beauty, Amy Beach’s Piano Quintet in F-sharp minor is rich in exquisite melodies and lush harmonies. It’s time to rediscover the sumptuous sonic world of one of America’s great romantics.

Inside Chamber Music: Beach's Piano Quintet

A haunting, chilling masterpiece, Prokofiev’s Sonata No.1 in F Minor for Violin and Piano, Op. 80 conveys the dread and despair of living in Stalin’s Soviet Union. 

Inside Chamber Music: Prokofiev’s Violin Sonata No. 1 in F minor

Discover the passionate, lyrical romantic music of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912), whose cantata Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast was as popular as Handel’s Messiah in England during the early 20th century. Join Bruce Adolphe for a close look at Coleridge-Taylor’s stirring piano quintet in G minor.

Inside Chamber Music: Coleridge-Taylor’s Piano Quintet in G minor

In a program celebrating America’s musical diversity, we will enjoy the sublime music of Dvořák twice, once through his “American” voice in the Sonatina, composed in Spillville, Iowa, and his quintessentially Czech mode with his iconic Piano Quintet.

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Mar 30, 2023

Art of the Recital: Gilbert Kalish

Mar 2, 2023

Art of the Recital: Tommaso Lonquich & Gilles Vonsattel

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