November 4, 2023 @ 7:30 pm EDT
Chamber music at its best with the Avery Ensemble. Celebrate Ligeti’s 100th birthday with us! Hear Brahms’s most Hungarian piano quartet in a new way, its movements interspersed with Hungarian gems. Avery Ensemble’s 23 years of dedication and “outside the box” programming have been praised by New London’s The Day as “designed to shake the cobwebs of chamber music. . . the best concert of this, or any season.” Avery’s performances have been praised by Audiophile Audition as “marvelous,” and by the Classical Voice of New England as “committed. . . excellent. . .amazing and persuasive. . . simply outstanding.”
Program “Alla Ungharese”: Brahms Piano Quartet no. 1; Ligeti Sonata (solo cello), White on White (piano); Hora lungă (viola); Kurtag In nomine all’ongherese (solo violin); Clara Schumann, Nocturne op.6 No.2 (solo piano). Free will offering.
Jaroslaw Lis, violin; Aekyung Kim, violin; Hans Twitchell, cello; Adriana Jarvis, piano