Season 2015/16 - Boston Chamber Music Society

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Marcus A. Thompson, Artistic Director
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Welcome to Season 2015-16
Reference and Reverence
Dear Friends:
In our thirty-third season we are thrilled as always to
offer passionate and committed performances of the
world’s great chamber music played by our members,
colleagues and friends. Inspiring guests have always
refreshed us, and will do so in the coming season.
Like last season, our Season of Change, we will locate the first three and last
three concerts at Sanders Theater. The January and February winter afternoon
concerts will be back at the Fitzgerald Theatre by popular demand. Much of
our programming this season includes music that refers to and reveres earlier
music that made possible futures past, and assures works yet to be.
As a young man Richard Strauss references the great music of Brahms to
create his early piano quartet. As an old man he reveres the process of change
in his Metamorphosen by quoting the theme of Beethoven’s Eroica Variations
in conclusion. Brahms cites two of his songs as sources for the rhythmic
motive of his first violin sonata. Both Brahms and Schubert evoke the great
outdoors, by the river and at the hunt, in their indoor use of the French horn.
In the season of darkness we are lit at the Fitz by works of Ravel, Enescu,
and Franck first heard in “The City of Light,” and warmed by the affectionate
melodies of Dvořák that made even Brahms envious.
Back at Sanders in spring, our three concerts will include the premiere of
Harold Meltzer’s first Piano Quartet, a gift from our BCMS Commissioning
Club, and the Boston premiere of John Harbison’s String Trio (2013), through
which he fulfills a life long dream to come to terms with “the once and future
king” of the string trio repertoire: Mozart’s Divertimento, K. 563.
Enjoy,
Marcus A. Thompson, Artistic Director
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Member musicians
Yura Lee, violin • Harumi Rhodes, violin • Dimitri Murrath, viola • Marcus Thompson, viola
Raman Ramakrishnan, cello
Guest artists
Charles Blandy, tenor* • Romie de Guise-Langlois, clarinet • Jason Snider, French horn*
Rieko Aizawa, piano • Benjamin Hochman, piano • Max Levinson, piano • Gilles Vonsattel, piano*
David Bowlin, violin* • Jesse Mills, violin • Gabriel Cabezas, cello*
Blaise Déjardin, cello* • Clancy Newman, cello • Astrid Schween, cello • Thomas Van Dyck, bass
*BCMS debut
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Sunday, September 20 / 7:30 pm Sanders Theatre
Haydn
Piano Trio in C major, Hob. XV: 21
Beethoven
String Trio in G major, Op. 9, No. 1
Strauss
Piano Quartet in C minor, Op. 13
Harumi Rhodes, violin • Marcus Thompson, viola • Astrid Schween, cello
Benjamin Hochman, piano
Sunday, October 25 / 7:30 pm Sanders Theatre
Bach Ricercar à 6 from The Musical Offering, BWV 1079
Beethoven Piano Trio in B-flat major, Op. 97, “Archduke”
Strauss Metamorphosen, TrV 290 for String Septet
Yura Lee, Harumi Rhodes, violin • Dimitri Murrath, Marcus Thompson, viola
Raman Ramakrishnan, Clancy Newman, cello • Thomas Van Dyke, double bass
Benjamin Hochman, piano
Sunday, November 22 / 7:30 pm Sanders Theatre
Schubert
Auf dem Strom for Tenor, Horn and Piano, D. 943
Brahms Regenlied and Nachklang, from Lieder und Gesänge, Op. 59
Brahms Violin Sonata in G major, Op. 78
Brahms Horn Trio in E-flat major, Op. 40
Charles Blandy, tenor • Jason Snider, French horn • Harumi Rhodes, violin
Gilles Vonsattel, piano
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Sunday, January 31 / 3:00 pm
Fitzgerald Theatre
Parisian Provenance
Ravel Violin Sonata No. 2 in G major
Ravel
Sonata for Violin and Cello
Enescu Concert Piece for Viola and Piano
Franck
Piano Quintet in F minor
Yura Lee, Harumi Rhodes, violin • Dimitri Murrath, viola
Blaise Déjardin, cello • Max Levinson, piano
Sunday, February 21 / 3:00 pm
Fitzgerald Theatre
From Bohemia to Iowa
Dvořák
Terzetto in C major for Two Violins and Viola, Op. 74, B.148
Selections from Cypresses for String Quartet, B. 152
Quartet Movement in F major, B. 120
String Quintet in E-flat major, Op. 97, B. 180, “American”
Yura Lee, David Bowlin, violin • Dimitri Murrath, Marcus Thompson, viola
Gabriel Cabezas, cello
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Sunday, March 13 / 7:30 pm
Sanders Theatre
Schubert
String Trio in B-flat major, D. 581
Meltzer
Piano Quartet
BCMS Commission/World Premiere
Mendelssohn
Piano Trio in C minor, Op. 66
Harumi Rhodes, violin • Dimitri Murrath, viola • Raman Ramakrishnan, cello
Benjamin Hochman, piano
Sunday, April 3 / 7:30 pm
Sanders Theatre
Schubert
Rondo for Violin and Piano in B minor, D. 895
Kodály
Duo for Violin and Cello, Op. 7
Debussy
Première rhapsodie for Clarinet and Piano
Brahms
Clarinet Trio in A minor, Op. 114
Romie de Guise-Langlois, clarinet • Yura Lee, violin • Raman Ramakrishnan, cello
Rieko Aizawa, piano
Sunday, May 15 / 7:30 pm
Sanders Theatre
Mozart
Piano Quartet in G minor, K. 478
Harbison
String Trio (2013)
Boston Premiere
Schumann
Piano Quartet in E-flat major, Op. 47
Jesse Mills, violin • Marcus Thompson, viola • Raman Ramakrishnan, cello
Rieko Aizawa, piano
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Annual workshop
Sunday, March 20 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Boston Chamber Music Society holds a daylong workshop for active amateur
players in which our musicians coach pre-formed ensembles at intermediate
and advanced levels.
Comments from past workshops: “Great resource for Boston area chamber
musicians,” “Excellent balance of detail and broad view,” “Masterful coaching...
couldn’t be better!” “Brought our performance to a higher level.”
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