Chamber Music Series

Mozart’s Viola Quintet in C Major

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

Performances

Nov 12 Wed 07:30PM

Performance Run Time: 1 hour 35 minutes, including intermission.

The unique timbre of the viola — rich, dark, and soulful — has made it the instrument of choice for composers seeking to add even more luscious beauty to chamber ensembles. In this one-of-a-kind program, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center performs five works from across four centuries, each with a pair of violas. From Vaughan Williams’s haunting Phantasy Quintet to violist-composer Brett Dean’s gripping lament, CMS musicians fully explore the depth of this expressive instrument. The performance culminates in Mozart’s joyful and uplifting C-major Quintet, one of six he composed that truly put the viola quintet on the chamber music map.

Program
Beethoven     Fugue in D major for Two Violins, Two Violas, and Cello, Op. 137 (1817)
Vaughan Williams     Phantasy Quintet for Two Violins, Two Violas, and Cello (1912)
Bowen            Two Duos in G major for Two Violas (1920)
Brett Dean                Epitaphs for Two Violins, Two Violas, and Cello (2010)
Mozart     Quintet in C major for Two Violins, Two Violas, and Cello, K. 515 (1787)

Artist Roster
Stella Chen, violin
Alexander Sitkovetsky, violin
Matthew Lipman, viola
Paul Neubauer, viola
Keith Robinson, cello

About Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

Founded in 1969, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS) brings the transcendent experience of great chamber music to more people than any other organization of its kind worldwide. Under the artistic leadership of cellist David Finckel and pianist Wu Han, the multi-generational and international performing artist roster of 140 of the world’s finest chamber musicians enables us to present chamber music of every instrumentation, style, and historical period.

Each season, we reach a global audience with more than 150 performances and education programs in our home at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall and the Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio at CMS and on tour with residencies worldwide.

We offer a wide range of learning formats and experiences to engage and inform listeners of all ages, backgrounds, and levels of musical knowledge through our education programs. The Bowers Program, our competitive three-season residency, is dedicated to developing the chamber music leaders of the future and integrates this selection of exceptional early-career musicians into every facet of CMS activities.

Our incomparable digital presence, which regularly enables us to reach millions of viewers and listeners annually, includes our weekly national radio program, heard locally on WQXR 105.9 FM on Monday evenings; radio programming in Taiwan and mainland China; and appearances on American Public Media’s Performance Today, the monthly program In Concert with CMS on the PBS ALL ARTS broadcast channel, and SiriusXM’s Symphony Hall channel, among others. The PBS documentary film Chamber Music Society Returns chronicles CMS’s return to live concerts at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall and on a six-city national tour. It is currently available to watch on PBS Passport. Our website also hosts an online archive of more than 1,700 video recordings of performance and education videos free to the public.