Chamber Series 4: Shadows, Canons, Veils
When & Where
- Saturday, April 20, 2024, 8 PM
- Sunday, April 21, 2024, 4 PM
First Church in Boston, 66 Marlborough Street
The runtime for this concert is approximately 2 hours, 15 minutes.
How to Order
Tickets: $25-$52
Order by phone: 617-427-8200
Program
- Rebecca Clarke, Midsummer Moon for violin & piano (1926)
- Serge Arcuri, Les furieuses enluminures for flute, clarinet, piano & string quartet
- Ludwig van Beethoven, Quintet in E-flat Major for piano & winds, Op. 16
- Thomas Adès, Les baricades mistérieuses for clarinet, bass clarinet, viola, cello & double bass
- Dmitri Shostakovich, Piano Quintet in g minor, Op. 57
Beethoven breaks free from his Classical roots, while Arcuri animates fantastical scenes from Medieval manuscripts. Clarke plays hide and seek with quixotic clouds, and Adès unveils Couperin’s enigma for the 21st century with a shimmering, kaleidoscopic trompe l’oeil. Shostakovich, too, looks to the past, bringing Baroque grandeur to his electrifying brand of modernism, as shadows of history give way to the future.
"[They] electrified with their brilliance."
— The Boston Musical Intelligencer
