Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Elgar’s Quintet (Site)
Tuesday May 6, 2025, 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Building on the earlier traditions of the piano quintet, Elgar’s A-minor Quintet was composed later in his career, during a time of reflection just after World War I. Likewise, Brahms’s Third Violin Sonata has a sense of nostalgia, written towards the end of his compositional career. Beethoven’s fifth and final cello sonata is arguably his first “late-period” work.
Program
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Sonata in D major for Cello and Piano, Op. 102, No. 2
(1815)
Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)
Sonata No. 3 in D minor for Violin and Piano, Op. 108
(1886–88)
Edward Elgar (1857–1934)
Quintet in A minor for Piano, Two Violins, Viola, and Cello, Op. 84
(1918–19)
Performers
Alessio Bax
Piano
Michael Stephen Brown
Piano
Benjamin Beilman
Violin
Richard Lin
Violin
Milena Pájaro-van de Stadt
Viola
Paul Watkins
Cello