Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013: Schumann: 2nd String Quartet and “Carnival”

Tonight starting at 7:00 on The Evening Concert it’s ‘The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’ with Schumann’s 2nd String Quartet and a sextet by Mendelssohn. At 8:00 it’s the 2012 Gilmore International Keyboard Festival. Kirill Gerstein plays Schumann’s “Carnival” plus there’s music of Bartok and Chopin as well.

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
SCHUMANN: String Quartet No. 2 in F Major, op.41 (Escher String Quartet; Adam Barnett-Hart, violin; Joel Link, violin; Pierre Lapointe, viola; Dane Johansen, cello)
MENDELSSOHN: Sextet for Piano, Violin, Two Violas, Cello and bass in D Major, op.110. (Leon Fleisher, piano; Ani Kavafian, violin; Yura Lee, violin; Nicolas Altstaedt, cello)

2012 Gilmore International Keyboard Festival
SCHUMANN: Carnival (Kirill Gerstein, piano)
BARTOK: Sonata, Sz. 80 (George Li, piano)
CHOPIN: Preludes, opus 28, Nos. 19, 20, & 15 (Alon Goldstein, piano)