Past Seasons: 2015-2016
Chamber Series 1: echoes of celestial song
- Saturday, October 10, 2015, 8 PM, First Church in Boston
- Sunday, October 11, 2015, 4 PM, First Church in Boston
- Camille Saint-Saëns, Sonata in D Major for oboe & piano, Op. 166
- Igor Stravinsky, Duo Concertant for violin & piano
- Elliott Carter, Sonata for flute, oboe, cello & harpsichord (1952)
- Per Nørgård, The Well-Tempered Percussionist
- Dmitri Shostakovich, Piano Quintet in g minor, Op. 57
Chamber Series 2: each to each impart
- Saturday, November 7, 2015, 8 PM, First Church in Boston
- Sunday, November 8, 2015, 4 PM, Goethe-Institut, Boston
- Felix Mendelssohn, Sonata No. 2 in D Major for cello & piano, Op. 58
- Steven Stucky, Partita Pastorale after J.S.B. for clarinet, string quartet & piano
- Heitor Villa-Lobos, Bachianas Brasileiras No. 6 for flute & bassoon
- Witold Lutoslawski Partita for violin & piano
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Piano Quartet No. 2 in E-Flat Major, K. 493
Chamber Series 3: The Brandenburgs
- Saturday, December 5, 2015, 8 PM, First Church in Boston
- Sunday, December 6, 2015, 4 PM, First Church in Boston
- J. S. Bach, Complete Brandenburg Concertos, BWV 1046–1051
Chamber Series 4: here and there, in paths apart
- Saturday, February 13, 2016, 8 PM, First Church in Boston
- Friday, February 12, 2016, 4 PM, Goethe-Institut, Boston
- Robert Schumann, Drei Romanzen for oboe & piano, Op. 94
- Onutė Narbutaitė, Winterserenade for flute, violin & viola
- John Harbison, November 19, 1828: Hallucination in Four Episodes for piano quartet
- Franz Schubert, Octet in F Major, D. 803, Op. Post. 166
Up Close 1: Gary Gorczyca and Kelli O’Connor, clarinets & Vivian Choi, piano
- Sunday, March 6, 2016, 4 PM, Goethe-Institut, Boston
- Felix Mendelssohn, Konzertstück No. 2 for two clarinets & piano, Op. 114
- Camille Saint-Saëns, Sonata in E-Flat Major, Op. 167
- Francis Poulenc, Sonata for two clarinets
- Gary Kulesha, Mysterium Coniunctionis for clarinet, bass clarinet & piano
- Johannes Brahms, Sonata in E-Flat Major, Op. 120, No. 2
Chamber Series 5: a voice of love and twilight
- Saturday, April 2, 2016, 8 PM, First Church in Boston
- Sunday, April 3, 2016, 4 PM, First Church in Boston
- Robert Kahn, Serenade in f minor for oboe, French horn & piano, Op. 73
- Judith Shatin, Werther for flute, clarinet, violin, cello & piano
- Jake Heggie, The Deepest Desire: Four Meditations on Love for soprano, flute & piano
- Ralph Vaughan Williams, Romance for viola & piano
- Johannes Brahms, Piano Quartet No. 3 in c minor, Op. 60
Up Close 2: Kristin Lee, violin & Gloria Chien, piano
- Sunday, April 17, 2016, 4 PM, Goethe-Institut, Boston
- Claude Debussy, Sonata in g minor
- Gyorgy Kurtag, Tre Pezzi, Op. 14e
- Béla Bartók, Sonata No. 2, Sz. 76, BB 84
- Ludwig van Beethoven, Sonata No. 9 in A Major, Op. 47 Kreutzer
Chamber Series 6: songs of earth and sky
- Saturday, May 21, 2016, 8 PM, First Church in Boston
- Sunday, May 22, 2016, 4 PM, Goethe-Institut, Boston
- Ernest Bloch, Baal Shem, Three Pictures of Chassidic Life for violin & piano
- Elena Firsova, Meditation in a Japanese Garden for flute, viola & piano
- Olivier Messiaen, Chants de terre et de ciel for soprano & piano
- David Ludwig, Haiku Catharsis for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano & percussion
- Camille Saint-Saëns, Piano Trio No. 2 in e minor, Op. 92
Free Family Concerts:
- Saturday, June 4, 2016, 2 PM, Hyde Park Branch Library
On the Road: Bach & Sons
- Saturday, June 18, 2016, 5 PM, Rockport Chamber Music Festival
- Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, Sinfonia in d minor, F. 65, “Adagio and Fugue” for flutes, strings & continuo
- Johann Christian Bach, Quintet in F Major for oboe, violin, viola, cello & keyboard, Op. 22, No. 2
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Trio Sonata in c minor for 2 violins & continuo, H.579, Wq.161 “Sanguineus and Melancholicus”
- Johann Sebastian Bach, Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D Major, BWV 1050
- Johann Sebastian Bach, Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G Major, BWV 1049