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Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center - April Highlights

4/4: Simply Britten

Benjamin Britten                    Quartet No. 2 in C major for Strings, Op. 36
Calidore Quartet
Jeffrey Myers, violin
Ryan Meehan, violin
Jeremy Berry, viola
Estelle Choi, cello

Benjamin Britten                    Simple Symphony for Strings, Op. 4
Chad Hoopes, Kristin Lee, Danbi Um, Arnaud Sussmann, Bella Hristova, violin I
Francisco Fullana, James Thompson, Daniel Phillips, Sean Lee, violin II
Paul Neubauer, Jeremy Berry, Matthew Lipman, viola
Dmitri Atapine, Sihao He, Mihai Marica, David Finckel, cello
Blake Hinson, double bass

4/11: 1930’s Bartók

Béla Bartók                Contrasts for Clarinet, Violin, and Piano, BB 116
Bella Hristova, Violin
David Shifrin, Clarinet
Gloria Chien, Piano

Béla Bartók                Quartet No. 5 for Strings, BB 110 Adam Barnett-Hart, Violin
Brendan Speltz, Violin
Pierre Lapointe, Viola
Brook Speltz, Cello

4/18: From Rio to Paris

Heitor Villa-Lobos     Bachianas brasileiras No. 5 for Soprano and Eight Cellos
Leah Crocetto, Soprano
Carter Brey, Timothy Eddy, Kevin Mills, Yi Qun Xu, Sumire Kudo, James Jeonghwan Kim, Richard Aaron, Rafael Figueroa, Cellos

César Franck             Quintet in F minor for Piano, Two Violins, Viola, and Cello
Wu Han, Piano
Danbi Um, Violin I
Chad Hoopes, Violin II
Paul Neubauer, Viola
Sihao He, Cello

4/25: Shadow and Memory

Krzysztof Penderecki Quartet No. 3 for Strings, “Leaves of an Unwritten Diary”
Shanghai Quartet:
Weigang Li, Violin I
Yi-Wen Jiang, Violin II
Honggang Li, Viola
Nicholas Tzavaras, Cello

Ernest Bloch              Quintet No. 1 for Piano, Two Violins, Viola, and Cello
Gloria Chien, Piano
Kristin Lee, Violin
James Thompson, Violin
Yura Lee, Viola
Dmitri Atapine, Cello