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Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
David Finckel and Wu Han, Artistic Directors
2025-2026: The Magnificent Violin
October 2025
Concert Calendar
OCT 16
HUMMEL AND ONSLOW
OCT 19
OPENING NIGHT
THE COMPOSER’S VIOLINIST: JOSEPH JOACHIM
OCT 23
GILBERT KALISH AT 90
OCT 24 & 26
BRAHMS AND DVOŘÁK
OCT 28
THE MIRÓ QUARTET
OCT 30
YURA LEE AND ANGUS WEBSTER
† Indicates that this artist is a current Bowers Program member.
* Indicates a CMS premiere.
Thursday Oct 16, 2025, 6:30 PM & 9 PM
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center • Rose Studio at CMS
ROSE STUDIO SERIES I
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center kicks off its Rose Studio Series with two rarely heard gems of the early Romantic era -- piano quintets by Johann Nepomuk Hummel and George Onslow -- shining a spotlight on the rich yet overlooked 19th century quintet tradition. Both works use the "Trout" quintet instrumentation: piano, violin, viola, cello and double bass.
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Hummel Quintet in E-flat minor for Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello, and Double Bass, Op. 87
Onslow Quintet in G major for Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello, and Double Bass, Op. 76*
Michael Stephen Brown, Sahun Sam Hong†, PIANO • Richard Lin, VIOLIN • Paul Neubauer, VIOLA • Dmitri Atapine, CELLO • Nina Bernat†, DOUBLE BASS
OPENING NIGHT
Sunday Oct 19, 2025, 5 PM
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center • Alice Tully Hall
THE COMPOSER’S VIOLINIST: JOSEPH JOACHIM
The opening concert of CMS’s celebratory violin season reunites Johannes Brahms and Clara & Robert Schumann with the violinist who inspired them: Joseph Joachim, the dominant violinist of the Romantic age. Joachim’s own composition, the rarely heard gem Romance for Violin and Piano, offers a glimpse of the violinist's own compositional voice, alongside works by composers he inspired. Featuring violinists Stella Chen, Gramophone 2023 Young Artist of the Year (and a CMS Bowers Program alumna), and Lun Li, a Shanghai native currently based in New York and a current member of CMS's Bowers Program. More about Joachim and CMS's violin season here [TK - link to Playbill article].
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C. Schumann Three Romances for Violin and Piano, Op. 22
R. Schumann Sonata in D minor for Violin and Piano, Op. 121
Joachim Romance for Violin and Piano
Brahms Sextet No. 2 in G major for Two Violins, Two Violas, and Two Cellos, Op. 36
Gilles Vonsattel, PIANO • Stella Chen, Lun Li†, VIOLIN • Paul Neubauer, James Thompson, VIOLA • David Finckel, Paul Watkins, CELLO
Gilbert Kalish
Thursday Oct 23, 2025, 7:30 PM
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center • Kaplan Penthouse
GILBERT KALISH AT 90
For his 90th birthday, legendary pianist and longtime CMS artist Gilbert Kalish has curated a program culminating in Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire. "In this program," he said, "we attempt to trace, in a very basic way, the path from German Romanticism to the wild, expressionistic world of this seminal work." Kalish is at the piano, with the incomparable soprano Tony Arnold joining an outstanding CMS ensemble.
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Brahms Intermezzo in B minor for Piano, Op. 119, No. 1
Brahms Intermezzo in C-sharp minor for Piano, Op. 117, No. 3
Webern Two Pieces for Cello and Piano
Webern Four Pieces for Violin and Piano, Op. 7
Schoenberg Pierrot Lunaire for Voice and Ensemble, Op. 21
Gilbert Kalish, PIANO • Tony Arnold, SOPRANO • Erin Keefe, VIOLIN/VIOLA • Nicholas Canellakis, CELLO • Tara Helen O’Connor, FLUTE/PICCOLO • Jose Franch-Ballester, CLARINET/BASS CLARINET
Friday Oct 24, 2025, 7:30 PM
Sunday Oct 26, 2025, 5 PM
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center • Alice Tully Hall
BRAHMS AND DVOŘÁK
Selected works of Dvořák are paired with music by his mentor Johannes Brahms, the undisputed master of the German tradition. With the profoundest respect for each other’s work (mixed with a tinge of mutual jealousy) the two worked tirelessly at the twilight of the Romantic era, composing an incomparable collection of beloved works.
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Dvořák Slavonic Fantasie for Violin and Piano (arr. Kreisler)
Dvořák Humoresque for Violin and Piano, Op. 101, No. 7 (arr. Elman)*
Brahms Quintet in F major for Two Violins, Two Violas, and Cello, Op. 88
Brahms Selected Hungarian Dances for Violin and Piano (arr. Joachim)
Dvořák Quintet in E-flat major for Two Violins, Two Violas, and Cello, Op. 97, “American”
Sahun Sam Hong†, PIANO • Sean Lee, Danbi Um, VIOLIN • Matthew Lipman, Milena Pájaro-van de Stadt, VIOLA • Clive Greensmith, CELLO
Tuesday Oct 28, 2025, 7:30 PM
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center • Alice Tully Hall
STRING QUARTET SERIES: THE MIRÓ QUARTET
The Miró String Quartet returns to the Alice Tully Hall stage in its 30th-anniversary year with a program that highlights both technical mastery and stylistic range. They perform a quartet from their recent Ginastera album, which the The New York Times noted for its “awe-inspiring intensity.” The evening spans the quartet repertoire from a mature work by Joseph Haydn to a groundbreaking classic by Ginastera, as well as two pillars of the French tradition: Debussy’s Quartet in G minor and the quartet that is thought to have inspired it by César Franck.
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Haydn Quartet for Strings in D major, Hob. III:70, Op. 71, No. 2
Ginastera Quartet No. 2 for Strings, Op. 26
Franck “Scherzo: Vivace” from Quartet in D major for Strings
Debussy Quartet in G minor for Strings, Op. 10
Miró Quartet (Daniel Ching, William Fedkenheuer, VIOLIN • John Largess, VIOLA • Joshua Gindele, CELLO)
Yura Lee and Angus Webster
Thursday Oct 30, 2025, 7:30 PM
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center • Rose Studio at CMS
ART OF THE RECITAL: YURA LEE AND ANGUS WEBSTER
Violinist/violist Yura Lee, a multifaceted artist and Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient praised for her virtuosity on both instruments (and a CMS Bowers Program alumna), and British pianist and conductor Angus Webster, a rising talent and former Salonen Fellow at the Colburn School, collaborate on a program tracing the evolution of the “fantasy” form.
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Telemann Fantasia No. 1 in B-flat major for Violin, TWV 40:14*
Schoenberg Phantasy for Violin and Piano, Op. 47
Hindemith Sonata for Viola and Piano, Op. 11, No. 4
R. Schumann Fantasiestücke (Fantasy Pieces) for Viola and Piano, Op. 73
Schubert Fantasy in C major for Violin and Piano, D. 934
Yura Lee, VIOLIN/VIOLA • Angus Webster, PIANO