Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Fauré’s Piano Quintet (Site)
Saturday April 26, 2025, 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
The astounding variety of chamber music is on full display here, each work sounding delightfully different from the next. The evening concludes with Fauré’s Piano Quintet No. 1, one of the composer’s most beloved works; describing the piece, none other than Aaron Copland praised Fauré’s “great powers of melody-making.”
Program
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
Duo in G major for Violin and Viola, K. 423
(1783)
Anton Arensky (1861–1906)
Trio No. 2 in F minor for Piano, Violin, and Cello, Op. 73
(c. 1905)
Gian Carlo Menotti (1911–2007)
CMS Commission
Suite for Two Cellos and Piano
(1973)
Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924)
Quintet No. 1 in D minor for Two Violins, Viola, Cello, and Piano, Op. 89
(1890–94)
Performers
Anna Geniushene
Piano
Wu Qian
Piano
Lun Li
Violin
Alexander Sitkovetsky
Violin
Yura Lee
Viola
Nicholas Canellakis
Cello
Sterling Elliott
Cello