While great music can be gripping, heart-wrenching, and profound, it is just as often exactly what’s needed to entertain, distract, and lift the spirits. In a program almost too pleasant for words, CMS offers musical diversions featuring opera melodies, an homage to an extinct instrument, an astounding display of double-bass virtuosity, and Schubert’s beloved masterpiece, composed for friends, based on a song about a fish.

Program
Beethoven Variations on “Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen” from Die Zauberflöte for Cello and Piano, WoO 46 (1801)
Schubert Sonata in A minor for Viola and Piano, D. 821, “Arpeggione” (1824)
Bottesini Gran duo concertante for Violin, Double Bass, and Piano (1880)
Schubert Quintet in A major for Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello, and Double Bass, D. 667, Op. 114, “Trout” (1819)

Performers
Orion Weiss, Piano
Paul Huang, Violin
Paul Neubauer, Viola
Keith Robinson, Cello
Xavier Foley, Double Bass