CMS Winter Festival: Grand Statements

• Escher String Quartet
• Gilbert Kalish, piano

Franz Schubert — String Quartet No. 12 in C minor, D. 703 "Quartettsatz"
Franz Schubert — Piano Sonata No. 21 in B-flat major, D. 960
Franz Schubert — String Quartet No. 15 in G major, D. 887, Op. 161

Like a shooting star, Franz Schubert blazed across music's sky for a brief 31 years, leaving behind over 1,000 works that transformed the Classical into the Romantic age.

Four programs spanning Schubert's creative career and variety of compositions offer a rich journey into one of music's most ethereal worlds. A fifth concert explores how the legacy of Schubert and composers in the two centuries following his death have re-worked and been inspired by his compositions.

About Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS)

http://www.chambermusicsociety.org/

About Escher String Quartet

Adam Barnett-Hart, violin

Brendan Speltz, violin

Pierre Lapointe, viola

Brook Speltz, cello

http://escherquartet.com/

About Gilbert Kalish, piano

As head of the performance faculty, Gilbert Kalish had done much to create the uniquely supportive and stimulating environment of Stony Brook's music department. Through his activities as performer and educator, he has become a major figure in American music making. A native New Yorker, Mr. Kalish studied with Leonard Shure, Julius Hereford and Isabelle Vengerova. He is a frequent guest artist with many of the world’s most distinguished chamber ensembles. Mr. Kalish's discography of some 100 recordings encompasses classical repertory, 20th-century masterworks and new compositions.

http://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/music/aboutus/faculty/kalish_gilbert.html