Kim Kashkashian, viola
Robert Levin, piano

Transcriptions
Beethoven: Seven Variations on aria from Mozart’s Magic Flute, WoO 46
Debussy: Fêtes Galantes
Britten: Lachrymae, Op. 48
Ravel: Cinq Mélodies Populaires Grecques
Beethoven: Twelve Variations on aria from Mozart’s Magic Flute, Op. 66
Stravinsky: Suite Italienne

Running time: 1 hour and 35 minutes (including intermission) 

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Musicians from Marlboro I

Maria Ioudenitch & Claire Bourg, violin; Beth Guterman Chu & Hayang Park, viola; Christoph Richter, cello

Haydn: Quartet in G Major, Op. 77, No. 1
Benjamin: Viola, Viola
Walker: String Quartet No. 1 [excerpt]: Slow Dance (original version of Lyric for Strings)
Mendelssohn: Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 44, No. 3

Running time: 1 hour and 40 minutes (including intermission) 

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Brooklyn Rider

The Sandbox of Invention
Haydn: String Quartet in C Major, Op. 20, No. 2, Hob.III:32, "Sun”
Works by Assad, Kahane, and Sorey from the Brooklyn Rider Almanac, Book II [Philadelphia Premiere, PCMS Co-Commission]
Gubaidulina: Reflections on the Theme B-A-C-H
Schumann: String Quartet in A Minor, Op 41, No. 1

Running time: 1 hour and 40 minutes (including intermission) 

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Formosa Quartet
Hsin-Yun Huang, viola
Peter Wiley, cello

Haydn: Quartet in D Minor, Op. 76, No. 2, Fifths
Formosa Quartet Set
Dvořák: String Sextet in A Major, Op. 48

Running time: 1 hour and 40 minutes (including intermission) 

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Musicians from Marlboro II

Patrick Bessenbacher, tenor; Mary Lynch VanderKolk, oboe; Itamar Zorman, violin; Haesue Lee, viola; Brannon Cho, cello; Filippo Gorini, piano

Vaughan Williams: Blake Songs
Grime: Oboe Quartet
Brahms: Piano Quartet in A Major, Op. 26

Running time: 1 hour and 35 minutes (including intermission) 

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Joseph Lin, violin
Helen Huang, piano

Haydn: Violin Sonata No. 7 in F Major
Beethoven: Violin Sonata in A Minor, Op. 23
Sheng: The Stream Flows (Solo Violin)
Schubert: Fantasy in C Major, D. 934

Running time: 1 hour and 35 minutes (including intermission) 

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Orion Quartet

Schubert: Quartet in G Major, D. 887
Beethoven: Quartet in B-flat Major, Op. 130 w/ Grosse Fuge, Op. 133

Running time: 2 hours and 5 minutes (including intermission) 

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Aizuri Quartet
Kim Kashkashian, viola
Marcy Rosen, cello

Esmail: Fantasie (Bihag) from Ragamala
Fe. Mendelssohn: Capriccio from Quartet, Op. 81
Ran: Lyre of Orpheus
Strauss: Sextet from Capriccio, Op. 85
C. Schumann: Die stille Lotosblume from Sechs Lieder, Op. 13, No. 6
Fa. Mendelssohn: Quartet in E-flat Major

Running time: 1 hour and 35 minutes (including intermission) 

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Lea Desandre, mezzo
Thomas Dunford, lute

Lettera amorosa
Monteverdi: "Sí dolce è’l tormento"
Frescobaldi: "Se l'aura spira" from Primo libro d'arie musicali per cantarsi
Kapsberger: Toccata No. 6
Dalza: "Calata ala Spagnola"
Handel: "Lascia la spina" from Il trionfo del Tempo e della Verità
Kapsberger: Toccata No. 5
Monteverdi: "Se i languidi miei sguardi (lettera amorosa)" from The Seventh Book of Madrigals
Kapsberger: "Figlio dormi"
Handel: "Frondi tenere e belle ... Ombra mai fù" from Serse
Kapsberger: Toccata No. 1
Merula: "Canzonetta spirituale sopra alla nanna"
Kapsberger: Toccata No. 3
Merula: "Folle è ben che si crede"
Monteverdi: "Quel sguardo sdegnosetto"

Running time: 1 hour and 40 minutes (including intermission) 

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Anthony Heald, actor
David Leisner, guitar

Such stuff as dreams are made on...
Program includes readings from Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets, interspersed with music by Dowland, Bach, Schubert, Villa-Lobos, Britten, and Leisner.

Running time: 1 hour (There will not be an intermission.) 

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Jean Bernard Cerin, baritone
Veena Kulkarni-Rankin, piano

Running time: 1 hour and 30 minutes (including intermission) 

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Alicia Hall Moran, mezzo
Allison Loggins-Hull, flute
Gabriela Martinez, piano

Diametrically Composed
Program includes works by Loggins-Hull, Moran, Prestini, Snider, and Meyer

Running time: 1 hour and 35 minutes (including intermission) 

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Lea Desandre, mezzo
Thomas Dunford, lute

Lettera amorosa
Monteverdi: "Sí dolce è’l tormento"
Frescobaldi: "Se l'aura spira" from Primo libro d'arie musicali per cantarsi
Kapsberger: Toccata No. 6
Dalza: "Calata ala Spagnola"
Handel: "Lascia la spina" from Il trionfo del Tempo e della Verità
Kapsberger: Toccata No. 5
Monteverdi: "Se i languidi miei sguardi (lettera amorosa)" from The Seventh Book of Madrigals
Kapsberger: "Figlio dormi"
Handel: "Frondi tenere e belle ... Ombra mai fù" from Serse
Kapsberger: Toccata No. 1
Merula: "Canzonetta spirituale sopra alla nanna"
Kapsberger: Toccata No. 3
Merula: "Folle è ben che si crede"
Monteverdi: "Quel sguardo sdegnosetto"

Running time: 1 hour and 40 minutes (including intermission) 

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ModernMedieval Voices

A Midwinter Feast
A collection of music written to celebrate the holiday season. Spanning from the 13th to the 21st centuries, the program includes carols, plainchant, traditional songs, and other music for Advent and Christmas from England, Ireland, and Wales.

Running time: 70 minutes (There will not be an intermission.) 

Maria Włoszczowska, violin
Jeremy Denk, piano

Bach: Six Sonatas for Violin and Keyboard, BWV 1014-1019

Running time: 2 hours (including intermission) 

Gamut Bach Ensemble

Audrey Fernandez-Fraser, soprano; Rebecca Ringle Kamarei, mezzo-soprano; James Reese, tenor; Edmund Milly, baritone; Mary Lynch VanderKolk & Ryan Roberts, oboe; Emilie-Anne Gendron & Stephanie Zyzak, violin; Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, viola; Zachary Mowitz, cello; Nathaniel West, double bass; Jonathan Oddie, organ; Koji Otsuki, director

Bach: Alles nur nach Gottes Willen, BWV 72
Bach: Wer da gläubet und getauft wird, BWV 37
Bach: Wahrlich, wahrlich, ich sage euch, BWV 86
Bach: Christus, der ist mein Leben, BWV 95

Running time: 1 hour and 30 minutes (including intermission)