Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center presents Rachmaninoff: The Composer

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS)

Sunday, October 29, 2023 @ 5:00pm – 7:00pm (EDT)

Alice Tully Hall, New York, NY, United States

$37-$86

Modest Mussorgsky — Rustic Song (Where are You Little Star?)
Sergei Rachmaninoff — Arion, Op. 34, No. 5
Mikhail Glinka — A Farewell to Saint Petersburg, No. 10: The Lark
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov — In Spring, Op. 43 (No. 2: It wasn't the wind, blowing from up high)
Sergei Rachmaninoff — These Summer Nights, Op. 14, No. 5
Sergei Rachmaninoff — Trio élégiaque No. 2 in D minor, Op. 9

A supreme virtuoso pianist and composer, Sergei Rachmaninoff stole the hearts of listeners worldwide with achingly beautiful melodies and alluring harmonies.

Rachmaninoff emerged as one of the last great Romantic composers, and this first of two concerts pairs his singular voice with those of his mentors and contemporaries.

About Benjamin Beilman, violin

One of the youngest artists to be appointed to the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music, violinist Benjamin Beilman is the recipient of a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship, an Avery Fisher Career Grant, and a London Music Masters Award. He studied at the Curtis Institute of Music with Ida Kavafian and Pamela Frank, and with Christian Tetzlaff at the Kronberg Academy.

"Playing with rich sound and plenty of brilliance, Beilman conveyed both dreamy lyricism and heated intensity" (The New York Times).

https://benjaminbeilman.com