Winter Festival: Milestones

Works of Schulhoff and Dvořák show a combination of intimacy and orchestral richness possible only in a string sextet. Setting the stage is the Op. 104 Quintet of Beethoven, the composer’s own arrangement of one of his popular early piano trios.

Violinist Sean Lee and pianist Peter Dugan celebrate Paganini in the first-ever CMS performance of all 24 Caprices.

Johannes Brahms adhered to the discipline of the classical age, yet, who has ever composed more romantically and with such passion? Gustav Mahler penned his only work of chamber music as an idealistic student. And César Franck brought all of his sensuousness and seriousness to this epic quintet, one of the literature’s most cherished masterpieces.