Mozart’s K.375 “Serenade” and K. 593 “String Quintet” on tonight’s “Evening Concert”
Mozart, Mozart, Mozart! Both hours of chamber music on tonight's "Evening Concert" include music of Mozart.
Escher Quartet plays Schubert; David Shifrin is the soloist Weber’s Clarinet Quintet
Schubert's String Quartet in G dates from June, 1826, was published posthumously in 1851; it's been recorded by more than 20 different ensembles!
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Messiaen’s Quartet “For the End of Time” on tonight’s “Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival”
Surely the experience of those in WWII concentration camps had to feel like 'the end of time'. Messaien knew that feeling as he was a POW in a camp, where he wrote the "Quartet 'For the End of Time'".
Mozart’s K.593 String Quintet, Brahms’ C Minor Piano Trio plus more on tonight’s “Evening Concert”
Mozart played harpsichord and later fortepiano, violin, and viola. The anwer is out there as to the question "Did Mozart favor the viola over the violin?" His 'Viola" Quintets, like the one tonight, reflect that favoring.
Brahms’ Opus 111 String Quintet and Weber’s Grand Duo Concertante on the “Evening Concert”
Brahms' Opus 111 String Quintet was written in 1890. It is the second of those works in that form and uses the two viola arrangement like the First String Quintet; music from "The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center" and the “Spoleto Chamber Music Festival”.