Midsummer MusicFest

Bell-Isserlis-Denk Trio & Friends – Fauré I

 

09 July, Wednesday 7:30 PM

Geffen Stage at Kaufmann Concert Hall, 92nd Y

 

The chamber music dream team of Joshua Bell, Steven Isserlis, and Jeremy Denk gives their first NYC performances in six years, performing two different evenings of gorgeous music by Gabriel Fauré (second concert: Sat, Jul 12).

 

The concerts follow the trio’s rapturous performances of this music in sold-out concerts at London’s Wigmore Hall in November and the Aspen Music Festival last summer, and feature some of the most luminous chamber music to be experienced.

 

Bell and Denk open the first program with one of Fauré’s best-loved chamber works, the elegant and passionate A-Major Violin Sonata, with the artists performing in multiple configurations: trio, duo, solo, quartet, and culminating in the D-Minor Piano Quintet – a Fauré gem, and a treat for anyone who loves Brahms – in which they’re joined by acclaimed Fauré interpreters violinist Irène Duval and violist Blythe Teh Engstroem.

 

JOSHUA BELL, violin

STEVEN ISSERLIS, cello

JEREMY DENK, piano

 

IRÈNE DUVAL, violin

BLYTHE TEH ENGSTROEM, viola

 

Program 

Fauré, Violin Sonata No. 1 in A Major, Op. 13 (Bell, Denk)

Fauré, Barcarolle No. 5 in F-sharp Minor, Op. 66 (Denk)

Fauré, Piano Trio in D Minor, Op. 120 (Bell, Isserlis, Denk)

Fauré, Sicilienne, Op. 78 (Isserlis, Denk)

Fauré, Berceuse, Op. 16 (Isserlis, Denk)

Fauré, Piano Quintet No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 89 (all)

 

The 92nd Street Y, New York

1395 Lexington Avenue

(between 91st & 92nd streets)

https://www.92ny.org/event/bell-isserlis-denk-trio-and-friends-faure-i