Mendelssohn’s “Op. 44, No. 2 String Quarter” and Elgar’s “A Minor Piano Quintet”

Sunday July 25: The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS 21-44)

Emotion

Respighi: Sonata in B minor for Violin and Piano. Paul Huang, Violin; Alessio Bax, Piano

Mendelssohn: Quartet in E minor for Strings, Op. 44, No. 2. Escher String Quartet

AND Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival (SFE 21-04) (New series: Ep. 4)

Béla Bartók: Contrasts for Violin, Clarinet, and Piano, Sz. 111 (1938)

Ida Kavafian, violin; Chen Halevi, clarinet; Kirill Gerstein, piano

(Performed July 26, 2012 at St. Francis Auditorium)

Sir Edward William Elgar: Piano Quintet in A Minor, Op. 84 (1918-19)

Jeremy Denk, piano; Tokyo String Quartet (Martin Beaver & Kikuei Ikeda, violins; Kazuhide Isomura, viola; Clive Greensmith, cello)

(Performed August 19, 2012 at Lensic Performing Arts Center)