Friends of Chamber Music subscriptions and tickets on sale for 75th anniversary season
Acclaimed ensembles include the return of Italy’s Cremona Quartet and a goodbye concert by the Emerson Quartet
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Italy’s Cremona Quartet kicks off the 2022-23 season for Friends of Chamber Music. Photo by Nikolaj Lund
Friends of Chamber Music’s shorter 74th season received a great welcome from music lovers and performers as everyone really appreciated being able to attend live concerts again.
For its 75th season, Friends of Chamber Music are back to a full roster of highly acclaimed ensembles, starting the fall season with the return of the Cremona Quartet from Italy.
The season continues with the first concert here from the outstanding young American Calidore Quartet. That’s followed by the Bohemian style of the Smetana Trio from the Czech Republic, and the Juilliard Quartet, celebrating their 75th year.
The final concert of 2022 on December 4 is special for devotees of chamber music as it will be the last concert the Emerson Quartet will play for Friends of Chamber Music; the ensemble’s members are retiring at the end of this season.
The Emerson will be joined by Eric Wilson, cellist, who was a founding member of the quartet when they were students, and left in 1979 to accept a position as professor of cello at the University of British Columbia. The performance features the Franz Schubert “Cello Quintet” for two cellos.
This will be the 34th concert the Emerson Quartet has played for Friends of Chamber Music, and during its exemplary chamber music career, it has presented many felicitous concerts of outstanding music. It’s been a wealth of superb musicianship, and audiences will miss them.
The spring 2023 season of five concerts begins with the Han Finckel Setzer Trio playing the two prime works of this canon, Beethoven’s “Archduke Trio”, Opus 97, and the supreme Brahms, Trio No. 1 in B major, Opus 8.
They will be followed by the Takács Quartet, who recently played to high accolade at the Edinburgh Festival, where they were praised as “a class act if there ever was one, marrying aristocratic elegance and red-blooded energy to everything they play.”
Friends of Chamber Music continue with their first concert from the Casals Quartet, hailing from the Spanish city of Barcelona, followed by a chance to listen to the English Elias Quartet. The 75th season’s final concert is with a Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center ensemble who will bring duo and trio piano works from Brahms and Arensky.
You can order tickets and subscriptions online at friendsofchambermusic.ca.
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