Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Shostakovich: The Complete Quartets, Cycle 1
The Jerusalem Quartet
Alice Tully Hall
March 17-24
It’s not often that part of a chamber music series is preceded by the launch of its own multi-feature, interactive web site. However, Shostakovich’s string quartets were composed between 1934 and 1974 under the constraints of Soviet Socialist Realism and are rife with embedded codes and symbols. So it seems appropriate that audiences would be invited to participate in some type of interactivity in addition to listening. The Jerusalem Quartet performs the complete cycle of the quartets over four concerts. Read More

Le Poème Harmonique
The Miller Theatre at Columbia University
September 12 and 14
The photogenic and ultra-talented French early music ensemble Le Poème Harmonique opens the Miller Theatre’s season with “Venezia”—candlelit, semi-staged performances of songs by Monteverdi, Manelli and others. Expect lots of period-appropriate drama, as the group, which focuses on 17th and 18th century music, interprets works like Ferrari’s “Chi non sà come amor” and madrigals by Monteverdi. Music director Vincent Dumestre leads a production that uses vocal ornamentation and historic gestures to bring to mind life in 17th century Venice during Carnival. Read More