CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER
REPERTOIRE
2024-25 season touring projects
TOUR 1 – “Poulenc’s Homage to Winds”
(6 Musicians: Anne-Marie McDermott, piano; Adam Walker, flute; James Austin Smith, oboe; David Shifrin, clarinet; Marc Goldberg, bassoon; Radek Baborák, horn)
Available: November 6-15. 2024
Beethoven Duo No. 3 in Bb Major for Clarinet and Bassoon
Gliere Four Pieces for Horn and Piano, op. 35
Poulenc Sonata for Clarinet and Bassoon
Martinu Sonata for Flute and Piano
Reineke Trio for Oboe, Horn and Piano in A minor, op. 188
Poulenc Sextet for Winds and Piano
TOUR 2 – “Spanish Journey”
(5 musicians: Soyeon Kate Lee, piano; Kristin Lee, violin; Clive Greensmith, cello; Jason Vieaux, guitar; soprano, TBD)
Available: Jan 31 – Feb 12, 2025
Obradors: Canciones Espanolas
Albeniz: Mallorca
Arbos: Three Original Pieces in Spanish Style
De Falla: Suite Populaire Espagnole
Sarasate:Romanza Andaluza
Rodrigo: Tres Canciones
Joaquín Turina: Piano Trio no. 2 in b minor, op. 76
TOUR 3 – “Trout Quintet”
(6 musicians: Wu Han, piano; Arnaud Sussmann & Julian Rhee, violin; Paul Neubauer, viola; Sterling Elliot, cello; Anthony Manzo, double-bass )
Available: March 14-26, 2025
WF Bach: Fugue in F minor arr. For string trio by Mozart K 404a
Mozart: Adagio and Fugue for string quartet and bass
Mozart: Piano Quartet in Eb
Schubert: “Trout” Quintet
TOUR 4 – “Two times Three”
(6 musicians: Paul Huang & Danbi Um, violin; Matthew Lipman & Timothy Ridout, viola; David Finckel & Sihao He, cello)
Available: April 22-30, 2025
Bach: Ricercar from the Musical Offering
Haydn: String Trio in G major XVI:40
Schubert: String Trio in Bb D. 581
Strauss: Sextet from Capriccio
Tchaikovsky: Souvenir de Florence
Narrative program descriptions:
TOUR 1 – “Poulenc’s Homage to Winds”
This program spotlights the wealth and variety of chamber music for winds in multiple combinations and introduces the former Principal Horn of the Berlin Philharmonic, Radek Baborák, to American audiences. The first half features duos for clarinet and bassoon, bringing these orchestral neighbors to the front of the stage in works that span more 100 years. The duos are interspersed with pieces highlighting the soloistic nature of both flute and horn with piano. One of Reinecke’s later works, the trio that begins the second half brings together an unusual combination of oboe, horn, and piano with lyrical melodies in the Romantic style, and all of the instruments gather at last for Poulenc’s Sextet, which he described as “an homage to the wind instruments I have loved from the moment I began composing.”
TOUR 2 – “Spanish Journey”
Spend a musical evening in Spain, a country of enchanting colors, rhythms, and textures, in a program imaginatively created by violinist Kristin Lee. The distinctive Spanish style is beautifully expressed in piano trios of Falla and Turina, while guitar, an instrument deeply associated with Spain, is also featured in the program, played by Grammy Award–winner Jason Vieaux. Song complements the balance of the program with vocal works by Sarasate, Rodrigo, and Obradors, the texts of which beautifully express the flair and passion of the Spanish language. The combination of the guitar’s intoxicating sounds, the language’s seductive tones, and the trios’ vivid style illustrates the richness of this culture.
TOUR 3 – “Trout Quintet”
One of the most beloved chamber music works for strings and piano, Schubert’s “Trout” Quintet not only demonstrates his genius for melody and lyricism, but also features a distinct combination of instruments: only one violin and the addition of double bass. The robust sound of the lowest of the strings can also be heard in Mozart’s Adagio and Fugue, a piece that deepens the string quartet’s tonal range. Original instrumentation is also attributed to Mozart’s set of piano quartets, the first music written for this combination, which inspired future generations of composers. CMS Co-Artistic Director Wu Han is one of the featured performers.
TOUR 4 – “Two times Three”
CMS Co-Artistic Director David Finckel is joined by colleagues from around the world in a program featuring string sextets, an ensemble comprised of pairs of violins, violas, and cellos—in other words, 2 times 3. The expansiveness of the sextet provides a distinctive depth of sonority to the ensemble, equally balanced between the instruments, which will be heard in Bach’s ingenious six-voice fugue (on a theme given to him by Frederick the Great) to the sextet from Richard Strauss’s final opera to the ravishing Souvenir de Florence by Tchaikovsky. The multi-dimensional sextet allows for smaller subsets, notably the string trio, which has its own unique sonority and rounds out the program, including one of Schubert’s great early string works, the B-flat major String Trio.
Mar, 2023