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- A Season of Quartets
- Opening Night: Celebrating Strings
- Premieres & CMS Commissions
- Sonic Spectrum
- Baroque Festival at CMS in December
- A Soldier's Tale - An Evening of Stories and Tales
- An Evening with David Finckel and Wu Han
- An Evening with pianist-composer Michael Stephen Brown
- George Crumb & Tan Dun
- Rachmaninov: The Composer and Pianist
Emerson and Orion Quartets' Farewell Performances As one of the largest and most influential chamber music presenters in the world, CMS has always supported the core ensemble of the repertoire: the String Quartet, and this season, it serves as the final stop for two great American quartets. After 44 seasons, the incomparable Emerson Quartet says go...
In the tradition of the great conductorless chamber ensembles, CMS's incomparable virtuosi come together for an evening of lush and bracing works for large ensembles by Elgar, Bartók, Grieg and Walker, concluding with Britten's inimitable Simple Symphony.
CMS is proud to present new commissions and premieres by contemporary composers throughout the season. Todd Cochran Soulbird for Clarinet, Cello, and Piano (2021) (World Premiere) Jake Heggie New Work for String Quartet (New York Premiere) Libby Larsen Trio Noir for Clarinet, Cello, and Piano (2022) (World Premiere) David Serkin Ludwig, winner of C...
CMS's series devoted to the work of living composers presents four concerts featuring work by 18 composers from diverse backgrounds and cultures on Thursday evenings November 9, January 18, March 28 and May 2. Composers featured in this season's Sonic Spectrum include Eleanor Alberga, Lera Auerbach, Todd Cochran, Reena Esmail, Dai Fujikura, Saad Ha...
On December 1 and 3, veteran harpsichordist and CMS Artist Kenneth Weiss offers a curated collection of baroque chamber works, all discoveries from the eternal wellspring of Baroque repertoire, most of which are being performed at CMS for the first time. Seven leading composers of the era-Telemann, C.P.E. Bach, Buxtehude, Couperin, Rameau and the r...
This is a program of chamber music that tells stories, anchored by Stravinsky's "L'Histoire du Soldat" (the Soldier's Tale), a full-blown musical play in which a violin-playing soldier sells his soul to the Devil. Also on the program are Telemann's 1729 "Gulliver's Travel Suite" for two violins, which depict the fantastical characters of Swift's st...
CMS's Artistic Directors David Finckel and Wu Han perform a program full of high contrasts, from classics of the cello literature to Bruce Adolphe's Couple, a work composed for them, and music by Debussy and Shostakovich. Violinist Richard Lin and violist Timothy Ridout, current members of the Bowers Program, join them for the finale, Dvořák's Quar...
In his first solo recital at Lincoln Center, the pianist and composer Michael Stephen Brown, an alumnus of the Bowers Program, delves into the piano repertoire, all new to the CMS stage. He begins with Haydn and several musical tributes to the great composer by Debussy, Ravel and Brown's own Etude-Fantasy on the name of Haydn. The program includes ...
CMS presents an all-star line-up for an evening of music from two towering figures of innovation and experimentation in contemporary composition, with works that contain sound worlds that redefine the parameters of chamber music with shocking intensity. The first half of the concert is devoted to selections from George Crumb's haunting The Winds of...
A supreme virtuoso pianist and composer, Sergei Rachmaninovhad his first success at age 19. Writing beautiful melodies, he emerged as one of the last great Romantic composers; he was also widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day. In the first of two concerts, CMS pairs Rachmaninov's singular voice as a composer with compositions by h...
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By: A.A. Cristi Jun. 15, 2023. The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center returns to Alice Tully Hall this July to present its eighth season of Summer Evenings on July 9, 11, 16 and 18, with free ...
May 7, 2024 · Meet the Host. Elliott Forrest is a Peabody Award winning broadcaster & producer. He is heard on New York’s Classical Music Radio Station 105.9FM – WQXR, WQXR.org and on WNYC. He’s been on the radio in New York City for 30 years. Elliott is the host and producer of the national radio concerts of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.
Oct 20, 2021 · Then there’s the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. This 52-year-old organization came back on Tuesday with a well played, depressing concert of Beethoven, Hummel, Schubert and Mendelssohn ...
Feb 28, 2022 · By: Chloe Rabinowitz Feb. 28, 2022. The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center has announced its 2022-23 season with a wide range of repertoire performed by its international, intergenerational ...
