LINCOLN CENTER CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES

Founded in 1969, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS) brings the transcendent experience of great chamber music to more people than any other organization of its kind worldwide. Under the artistic leadership of cellist David Finckel and pianist Wu Han, the multi-generational and international performing artist roster of 140 of the world’s finest chamber musicians enables CMS to present chamber music of every instrumentation, style, and historical period. Each season, CMS reaches a global audience with more than 150 performances and education programs in their home at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall and on tour with residencies worldwide. CMS engages a growing audience through a range of free digital media, including livestreams, an online archive of more than 1,500 video recordings, and broadcasts that are distributed to millions of listeners around the world. CMS’s tour to China is made possible by the generous support of US-China Cultural Institute in honor and memory of our dear friend Shirley Young.

The Academy brings you the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, featuring some of the world’s finest chamber musicians, the CMS will present exciting works for flute, piano and strings, including Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Mahler, Suk, Schubert, Mozart, Villa-Lobos, Brahms and Dvořák.

Programme I: 8:00 pm; Wednesday, 23 October 2024

Join the artists for classics, including a Beethoven serenade for the unusual combination of flute, violin, and viola, as well as Mendelssohn’s youthful F-minor Piano Quartet. The program closes with Robert Schumann’s transformative and lyrical Piano Quintet, which he dedicated to his wife Clara.

WU HAN, Piano
TARA HELEN O’CONNOR, Flute
LUN LI, Violin
ARNAUD SUSSMANN, Violin
MATTHEW LIPMAN, Viola
DAVID FINCKEL, Cello
HE SIHAO, Cello

Beethoven  Serenade for Flute, Violin, and Viola in D Major, Op. 25
                    O'Connor, Li, Lipman

Mendelssohn  Quartet in F minor for Piano, Violin, Viola, and Cello, Op. 2
                        Wu Han, Sussmann, Lipman, David Finckel

--INTERMISSION--

Schumann  Quintet in E-flat major for Piano, Two Violins, Viola, and Cello, Op. 44
                   Wu Han, Li, Sussmann, Lipman, He

Programme II: 8:00 pm; Friday, 25 October 2024

Take a trip to the heart of Europe with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, beginning with early-career piano quartets by Gustav Mahler and Josef Suk - in Mahler’s case, his only surviving piece of chamber music. The program concludes with Franz Schubert’s sublime String Quintet, written in the last year of his life and one of the most treasured works in all of chamber music.

WU HAN, Piano
LUN LI, Violin
ARNAUD SUSSMANN, Violin
MATTHEW LIPMAN, Viola
DAVID FINCKEL, Cello
HE SIHAO, Cello

Mahler  Quartet in A minor for Piano, Violin, Viola, and Cello
             Wu Han, Sussmann, Lipman, David Finckel

Suk  Quartet in A minor for Piano, Violin, Viola, and Cello, Op. 1
        Wu Han, Li, Lipman, He

--INTERMISSION--

Schubert  Quintet in C major for Two Violins, Viola, and Two Cellos, D.956, Op. 163
                Sussmann, Li, Lipman, He, David Finckel

Programme III: 8:00pm; Saturday, 26 October 2024

This program exhibits the variety of chamber music repertoire with a duet, a trio, a quartet, and a quintet. Mozart’s elegant D-major Flute Quartet is followed by an inventive duo for flute and cello by Brazil’s most renowned composer, Heitor Villa-Lobos. The final works are beloved standards for chamber music lovers: Brahms’s C-major Piano Trio, about which he stated, “You have not yet had such a beautiful trio from me”, and Dvořák’s A-major Piano Quintet.

WU HAN, Piano
TARA HELEN O’CONNOR, Flute
LUN LI, Violin
ARNAUD SUSSMANN, Violin
MATTHEW LIPMAN, Viola
DAVID FINCKEL, Cello
HE SIHAO, Cello

Mozart  Flute Quartet in D Major
            O’Connor, Li, Lipman, David Finckel

Villa-Lobos  Jet Whistle Flute and Cello
                    O’Connor, He

Brahms  Trio in C major for Piano, Violin, and Cello, Op. 87
                Wu Han, Sussmann, David Finckel

--INTERMISSION--

Dvořák   Quintet in A major for Piano, Two Violins, Viola, and Cello, B. 155, Op. 81
              Wu Han, Sussmann, Li, Lipman, He