CMS Returns for its Season Finale. Get Your Tickets Before They're Gone
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The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center returns to Trinity Episcopal Church on March 25, and if the last two performances are any indication, tickets will not last!
Violinist Benjamin Beilman will be joining CMS mainstays David Finckel (cellist) and Wu Han (pianist) for an evening that moves from Brahms to Shostakovich to Schubert and encompasses a profound range of emotional experiences along the way.
The program opens with a piece of musical mischief: Brahms wrote his F-A-E Scherzo at age 20 as part of a secret collaborative gift for violinist Joseph Joachim, whose motto, "Frei aber einsam," free but lonely, gave the sonata its name.
Then things get heavier. Shostakovich's Piano Trio No. 2 opens with the cello in ghostly harmonics and builds toward a macabre intensity. Written in grief for a lost friend, the finale, in the style of Jewish folk music, is widely understood as an elegy for victims of the Holocaust.
The evening closes beautifully with Schubert's grand Piano Trio No. 2 in E-flat major, premiered at the only all-Schubert concert held in his lifetime, after which he promptly spent the proceeds on Paganini tickets for both himself and a friend.
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