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Carnegie Hall Presents

Chamber Sessions I

This series is filled with music that will grab your attention and challenge your musical mind. It begins with an all-Beethoven program by the Belcea Quartet, with a focus on the composer's epoch-making late quartets. Also on the series: the Brentano String Quartet the young musicians of Ensemble ACJW, as well as an inspired exploration of the music and culture of late-19th–century Vienna with Renée Fleming.

Series Events

Saturday, Nov 3, 2012 | 7:30 PM
Belcea Quartet
Zankel Hall

Performers

  • Belcea Quartet
    ·· Corina Belcea-Fisher, Violin
    ·· Axel Schacher, Violin
    ·· Krzysztof Chorzelski, Viola
    ·· Antoine Lederlin, Cello

Program

  • BEETHOVEN String Quartet in F Minor, Op. 95, "Serioso"
  • BEETHOVEN String Quartet in F Major, Op. 135
  • BEETHOVEN String Quartet in A Minor, Op. 132
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For Krzysztof Chorzelski of the Belcea Quartet, Beethoven’s string quartets are “among the highest challenges for any ensemble. They’re also one of the greatest musical journeys any listener or performer can ever undertake.” The group begins its three-concert, all-Beethoven residency with a program that includes the composer’s “Serioso” Quartet—which shows Beethoven at his most experimental—and the tuneful, life-affirming Op. 135, his final major work.
Beethoven's String Quartet A minor, Op. 132 (Allegro appassionato)
Juilliard Strong Quartet
Sony Classical
Sunday, Dec 2, 2012 | 7:30 PM
Ensemble ACJW
Featuring Musicians of The Academy - A Program of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, and The Weill Music Institute In Partnership With The New York City Department of Education
Zankel Hall

Performers

  • Ensemble ACJW
    Harry Bicket, Conductor
  • Lucy Crowe, Soprano

Program

  • BACH Concerto for Violin, Oboe, and Strings
  • BACH Cantata No. 51: Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen!
  • REBEL Les élémens
  • GLUCK Suite from Armide
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This inspirational collective of outstanding young professional musicians from The Academy that has earned accolades from critics and audiences alike for the quality of its performances, as well as its fresh and open-minded approach to programming, redefining what it means to be a musician in the 21st century. On this program, they perform music from the Baroque with conductor Harry Bicket.
Bach's Cantata "Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen!, BWV 51, V. Aria, "Alleluja!"
English Concert | Harry Bicket, Conductor | Elizabeth Watts, Soprano
harmonia mundi
Tuesday, Feb 12, 2013 | 7:30 PM
Brentano String Quartet
Zankel Hall

Performers

  • Brentano String Quartet
    ·· Mark Steinberg, Violin
    ·· Serena Canin, Violin
    ·· Misha Amory, Viola
    ·· Nina Lee, Cello

Program

  • HAYDN String Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 33, No. 2, "Joke"
  • STEVEN MACKEY One Red Rose (World Premiere, co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall)
  • BEETHOVEN String Quartet in G Major, Op. 18, No. 2
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“The Brentano String Quartet is something special,” wrote Paul Griffiths in The New York Times. “Their music making is private, delicate, and fresh, but by its very intimacy and importance it seizes attention.” On this program, the Brentano Quartet String performs playful, jovial works by Haydn and Beethoven, plus a world premiere by Steven Mackey.
Beethoven's String Quartet Op. 127, No. 12 in E-Flat Major, I. Maestoso-Allegro
Brentano String Quartet
Aeon
Saturday, May 4, 2013 | 7:30 PM
Vienna: Window to Modernity
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

Performers

  • Renée Fleming, Soprano and Host
  • Jeremy Denk, Piano
  • Emerson String Quartet
    ·· Eugene Drucker, Violin
    ·· Philip Setzer, Violin
    ·· Lawrence Dutton, Viola
    ·· David Finckel, Cello
  • Paul Neubauer, Viola
  • Colin Carr, Cello

Program

The finale of Renée Fleming's Perspectives series, Vienna: Window to Modernity is a thoughtful tribute to the time and place where the European musical tradition, under the influence of literary and visual arts, gave way to the 20th century.
Korngold's Die tote Stadt, Act 1, Glück, das mir verblieb (Mariettalied)
English Chamber Orchestra | Jeffrey Tate, Conductor | Renée Fleming, Soprano
Decca

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