The 92nd Street Y, New York (92NY), will present the Emerson String Quartet and the Calidore Quartet: Mendelssohn's Octet and more on June 1, 2022 at 7:30pm ET. The performance kicks off The ...
Brandeis' internationally recognized chamber music group, the Lydian String Quartet, will open its concert season with performances of compositions by Franz Joseph Haydn, Phillip Glass and Elliott ...
CONCERT CLUB, Baxter Concert Hall, November 1; ARCHI iKAPA; Shostakovich: Two Pieces for String Octet, Op 11; Bruch: String Octet, Op Posth (1920); Mendelssohn: Octet in E flat Major, Op 20. This was ...
FALLS VILLAGE — The Jupiter String Quartet (Nelson Lee and Meg Freivogel, violinists; Liz Freivogel, viola; and Daniel McDonough, cello) makes its debut at Music Mountain Aug. 22 at 3 p.m., performing ...
At age 16 — please repeat, 16 — Felix Mendelssohn composed one of the most miraculous pieces of chamber music of the last two centuries. His Octet for Strings in E-flat Major is a pedal-to-the-metal ...
Plenty of trios and quartets exist in the classical-music world. An octet is a rarer bird. On Saturday, an octet with impeccable lineage will land with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields chamber ...
Fortunately the work happens to be a showstopper that never fades, full of vibrant energy, exciting virtuosity and dramatic ­pathos. Written, almost unbelievably, when the composer was only 16, the ...