The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center will be back in The PAC’s Recital Hall this Saturday. If you missed last month’s performance, don’t make the same mistake twice! These concerts are always extraordinary and the acoustics in the Recital Hall are world-class.
Click here for more details about CMS of Lincoln Center’s “Conversations with Friends” at The PAC this Saturday, November 19 at 5pm. And be sure to check out the links below for a preview of the program, a look at the participating artists, and a few other fun tidbits you can enjoy online this week.
CMS of Lincoln Center presents
Late Night Rose: Clara, Robert, and Felix
Livestream begins November 17 at 9pm.
Tonight’s Late Night Rose: Clara, Robert, and Felix is a true preview of Saturday’s performance! Pianist Wu Qian, violinist and host Kristin Lee, and cellist Sihao He join forces to celebrate the lifelong friendship between Robert and Clara Schumann and Felix Mendelssohn, and the music it inspired.
Schumann / Three Romances for Violin and Piano, Op. 22 (1853)
Mendelssohn / Variations concertantes in D major for Cello and Piano, Op. 17 (1829)
Schumann / Trio No. 1 in D minor for Piano, Violin, and Cello, Op. 63 (1847)
Watch and listen to “Late Night Rose” on the CMS of Lincoln Center website
CMS of Lincoln Center presents
Beethoven: Quintet in E-flat major for Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Horn, and Piano, Op. 16 III. Rondo
Recorded live in Alice Tully Hall on March 13, 2018.
Artists: Stephen Taylor, oboe; Alexander Fiterstein, clarinet; Peter Kolkay, bassoon; Radovan Vlatkovic, horn; Wu Qian, piano
Watch and listen on YouTube
CMS of Lincoln Center presents
Gershwin: An American in Paris for Two Pianos (1928)
Filmed live in Alice Tully Hall on March 4, 2018.
Artists: Juho Pohjonen, Wu Qian, piano
Watch and listen on YouTube
CMS of Lincoln Center pianists Juho Pohjonen & Wu Qian rehearse the Schubert Fantasie in F minor for Piano, Four Hands, D. 940, Op. 103Wu.
In preparation for “Vienna to Hollywood,” Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center pianists Juho Pohjonen and Wu Qian rehearse the Schubert Fantasie in F minor for Piano, Four Hands, D. 940, Op. 103Wu.
Watch and listen on YouTube
CMS of Lincoln Center presents
Prokofiev: Sonata in D major for Violin and Piano, Op. 94a I. Moderato
Recorded live in Alice Tully Hall on July 16, 2017. Video produced by Ibis Productions.
Artists: Kristin Lee, violin; Michael Stephen Brown, piano
Watch and listen on YouTube
CMS of Lincoln Center presents
Franck: Quintet in F minor for Piano, Two Violins, Viola, and Cello
César Franck: Quintet in F minor for Piano, Two Violins, Viola, and Cello (1879) III. Allegro non troppo, ma con fuoco
Recorded live in Alice Tully Hall on January 30, 2022. Video produced by Ibis Productions.
Artists: Wu Han, piano; Danbi Um, Chad Hoopes, violin; Paul Neubauer, viola; Sihao He, cello
Watch and listen on YouTube
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Carnegie Hall presents NYO Jazz
NYO Jazz performs Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn’s “Take the A Train” (arr. John Clayton) with bandleader Sean Jones. This performance was filmed at the Fisher Music Center in Detroit on August 5, 2022. NYO Jazz, comprising outstanding young musicians ages 16–19 from across the US, showcases the legacy and bright future of American jazz. Led by Artistic Director Sean Jones, these remarkable musicians come together each summer to engage in a rigorous training residency with world-class jazz masters on the campus of Purchase College, State University of New York. In addition to the residency, NYO Jazz performs an annual concert at Carnegie Hall with a celebrated guest artist and embarks on a tour to some of the world’s great music capitals. The musicians serve as dynamic music ambassadors as they share this uniquely American genre with audiences around the globe.
Watch Carnegie Hall presents NYO Jazz on YouTube
Carnegie Hall presents NYO-USA
NYO-USA 2022 rehearses Mahler’s Symphony No. 5, led by orchestra director James Ross
And now some film music! In the new movie TÁR, Cate Blanchett plays Lydia Tár, one of the greatest living composer-conductors, and the first female chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic. In an interview with Adam Gopnik at The New Yorker Festival, she promotes several new projects, including most prominently, her upcoming live recording of Mahler’s 5th Symphony. Last summer’s NYO-USA comprised 109 members—ages 16–19 and hailing from 34 US states—who had been recognized by Carnegie Hall as some of the finest players in the country following a comprehensive national audition process. In preparation for its performance activities in the New York area and abroad, NYO-USA worked with an impressive list of principal players from many of the nation’s top professional orchestras during its training residency at Purchase College, SUNY. Following an intensive two-week residency and a concert at Carnegie Hall on July 29, this incredible group of instrumentalists, led this summer by Daniel Harding and joined by guest cellist Alisa Weilerstein, embarked on a four-city European tour.
Watch as NYO-USA 2022 rehearses Mahler’s Symphony No. 5
NYO-USA Performs John Williams’s “Adventures on Earth” from E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
Continuing with more film music… The National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America (NYO-USA) performs an excerpt from John Williams’s “Adventures on Earth” from E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial with conductor Daniel Harding. This performance was filmed at the Konzerthaus Berlin as part of the Young Euro Classic international music festival on August 5, 2022.
Watch NYO-USA perform John Williams’s “Adventures on Earth” on YouTube
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Culture Picks is a bi-weekly feature celebrating the performing arts. The PAC’s 2022-2023 season kicked off on October 8 and cultural connoisseur and PAC staff member Coni Guhl is here to shine the spotlight on artists that will be a part of it. Each post will feature her curated selection of video, audio, and things to read about one of our artists, plus an occasional recommendation about other performing arts experiences that you just can’t miss. Enjoy!
All times are EDT unless otherwise noted.
Featured image: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Conversations with Friends artists: Kristin Lee, Wu Qian, and Sihao He. Photos courtesy of Lincoln Center.
