The Appalachian Mountains and American Folk Songs serve as the inspiration for pieces shared this month from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. The program (on 2/19) will feature works by Samuel Barber and Stephen Foster, as well as a suite from Copland's Appalachian Spring.
2/5 Mozart: Quintet in D (Daniel Phillips, Todd Phillips, v; Ida Kavafian, Steven Tenenbom, vla; Timothy Eddy, c) Brahms: Trio in C (Sitkovetsky Trio: Wu Qian, p; Alexander Sitkovetsky, v; Richard Harwood, c)
2/12 Beethoven: Violin Sonata (Bella Hristova, v; Gilbert Kalish, p) Mozart: Quartet (Escher String Quartet: Adam Barnett-Hart, Danbi Um, v; Pierre Lapointe, vla; Brook Speltz, c)
2/19 Barber: Souvenirs for Piano (Gilles Vonsattel, Wu Han, p) O’Connor: FC's Jig for Violin and Viola (Arnaud Sussmann, v; Paul Neubauer, vla) Copland: Appalachian Spring Suite for Ensemble (Kristin Lee, v; ensemble of CMS artists) Foster/O’Connor: Selections from The Social Orchestra (an ensemble of CMS artists)
2/26 Kreisler: Viennese Rhapsodic Fantasietta (Yura Lee, v; Gilbert Kalish, p) Bartók: Contrasts (Alexi Kenney, v; Sebastian Manz, cl; Alessio Bax, p) Rachmaninov: Suite No. 2 (Wu Qian, Anne-Marie McDermott, p)