Elgar's Quintet in A minor for Piano, Two Violins, Viola, and Cello, Op. 84
Wed, Feb 26, 2025, 6:30 pm
Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio at CMS
1 hour 15 minutes, no intermission
Elgar called the first movement of his Piano Quintet “ghostly stuff.” Is it really music about Spanish monks who were struck by lightning and turned into the strange and beautiful trees in a park near Elgar’s home, as Lady Elgar wrote in her diary?
Program
Edward Elgar
(1857–1934)Quintet in A minor for Piano, Two Violins, Viola, and Cello, Op. 84
(1918–19)
Bruce Adolphe
Resident lecturer and director of family concerts for CMS since 1992, Bruce Adolphe is a composer of international renown, much of whose output addresses science, history, and the struggle for human rights.
Resident lecturer and director of family concerts for the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center since 1992, Bruce Adolphe is a composer of international renown, much of whose output addresses science, history, and the struggle for human rights. His works are frequently performed by major artists, including Itzhak Perlman, Yo-Yo Ma, Fabio Luisi, Joshua Bell, Daniel Hope, Angel Blue, the Brentano String Quartet, the Washington National Opera, the Metropolitan Opera Guild, the Human Rights Orchestra of Europe, and over 60 orchestras worldwide. Among his most performed works are the violin concerto I Will Not Remain Silent, the violin/piano duo Einstein’s Light, and Tyrannosaurus Sue: A Cretaceous Concerto.