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Carnegie Hall Presents

Chamber Sessions II

String quartets lead the way in this series. While the Belcea and Artemis quartets perform favorites of the genre—two late Beethoven works, and valedictory music by Mendelssohn and Schubert—the Elias String Quartet teams with Jonathan Biss for a chamber version of a Mozart piano concerto.

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Wednesday, Nov 7, 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 E-flat Major, Op. 127
  • BEETHOVEN String Quartet in B-flat Major, Op. 130
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The Belcea Quartet, a group that approaches everything it plays with “timeless daring” (The New York Times), continues its three-concert focus on Beethoven’s epoch-making late quartets. This program features the E-flat–Major Quartet, Op. 127—the first of the five final quartets that changed the string quartet genre forever—and the B-flat–Major Quartet, Op 130.
Beethoven's Quartet No. 12 in E-flat Major for Strings, Op. 127, IV. Finale
Juilliard Strong Quartet
Sony Classical
Sunday, Mar 17, 2013 | 7:30 PM
Artemis Quartet
Zankel Hall

Performers

  • Artemis Quartet
    ·· Natalia Prischepenko, Violin
    ·· Heime Müller, Violin
    ·· Volker Jacobsen, Viola
    ·· Eckart Runge, Cello

Program

  • MENDELSSOHN String Quartet in F Minor, Op. 80
  • GINASTERA String Quartet No. 2, Op. 26
  • SCHUBERT String Quartet in G Major, D. 887
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Mendelssohn wrote his volatile, gut-wrenching F-Minor String Quartet, Op. 80, shortly after his sister Fanny died and only months before his own demise. Schubert’s final quartet—No. 15 in G Major—moves between sunny major-key and darkly ambiguous minor-key music. The Artemis Quartet performs both of these valedictory, quintessentially Romantic works.
Schubert's Quartet for Strings No. 12 in C Minor, D 703, Allegro Assai
Artemis Quartet
Virgin Classics
Wednesday, Apr 10, 2013 | 7:30 PM
Jonathan Biss
Elias String Quartet
Zankel Hall

Performers

  • Jonathan Biss, Piano
  • Elias String Quartet
    ·· Sara Bitlloch, Violin
    ·· Donald Grant, Violin
    ·· Martin Saving, Viola
    ·· Marie Bitlloch, Cello
  • Carol McGonnell, Clarinet
  • Eric Reed, Horn
  • Brad Balliet, Bassoon

Program

  • JANÁCEK Concertino for Piano and Chamber Ensemble
  • MOZART Piano Concerto No. 13 in C Major, K. 415
  • SCHUMANN Piano Quintet in E-flat Major, Op. 44
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Shortly after moving to Vienna in 1783, Mozart wrote a set of three concertos to show off his compositional skills and his prowess as a pianist, also producing orchestral and string-quartet arrangements of the works. On this program, Jonathan Biss and the Elias String Quartet perform the chamber version of the last of these three concertos, along with the Piano Quintet that helped solidify Schumann’s reputation as a composer. Starting off the concert is Janáček’s idiosyncratic Concertino.
Schumann's Piano Quintet, Op. 44 in E-flat, Scherzo molto vivace
Guarneri Quartet | Artur Rubinstein, Piano
RCA

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