Concerts for the 2012-2013 Season

  • Saturday, September 29, 2012Lincoln Middle SchoolTokyo String Quartet — in their final seasonTokyo String Quartet — in their final seasonWe open our season with one of the truly great ensembles in the world today—the legendary Tokyo String Quartet. This will be the last year that devoted audiences worldwide will get to hear this extraordinary group in live performance, as the Tokyo String Quartet has decided that its extraordinary 44-year history will officially come to an end at the close of this season. Thereafter, we will have to content ourselves with the Tokyo's legacy of more than 40 award-winning recordings.

    SFCM has particularly warm feelings for the Tokyo String Quartet because we heard them in the late 1970s when they were still students at the Juilliard School of Music. The Juilliard String Quartet, scheduled to play in Syracuse, had had to cancel due to illness, and the Juilliard's Robert Mann encouraged SFCM's then music director Louis Krasner to substitute an extraordinary young Japanese quartet that was studying with them. "You won't be sorry," Mann assured Krasner. He was right: the audience was ecstatic. This will be the Tokyo String Quartet's 14th—and final—concert for SFCM.
    "At times, the music was close to magical. The entire performance was a model of focus and moderation, gripping from the first measure to the last." —The Ottawa Citizen

    "Over the past 40 years, The Tokyo String Quartet has built a welll-deserved reputation for rock-solid ensemble playing and immaculate razor-edged precision." —The Washington Post
    Haydn Quartet in D Major, Op. 20, No. 4, "Sun"
    Webern Five Pieces, Op. 5
    Schubert Quartet in G Major, Op. 161, D. 887
  • Saturday, October 20, 2012Lincoln Middle SchoolYing String Quartet with Elinor Freer, pianoYing String Quartet with Elinor Freer, pianoThe Ying is quartet-in-residence at the Eastman School of Music and tours extensively in the United States and abroad, combining brilliantly communicated performances with a fearlessly imaginative view of chamber music in today's world. For this, their second concert with SFCM, they will be joined by pianist Elinor Freer, co-artistic director of the Skaneateles Festival with Ying Quartet cellist David Ying.

    Felix Mendelssohn Quartet No. 2, Op. 13, in A minor
    Kenji Bunch Quartet No. 2, "Concussion Theory"
    Dmitri Shostakovich Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 57
  • Saturday, November 17, 2012Lincoln Middle SchoolFlanders Recorder QuartetFlanders Recorder QuartetIn their many recordings and more than 1,800 performances worldwide over the past three decades, this highly virtuosic ensemble has made the recorder—one of the most important instruments of Renaissance and Baroque music—shine again with its former splendor. For their richly varied programs, the Quartet chooses from their extensive collection of more than 50 exotic instruments, providing a feast for the eyes as well as ears.

    "Venezia, il paradiso di dolci suoni" ("Venice, a paradise of sweet sounds"), with music by Antonio Vivaldi, Johann Sebastian Bach, Michael Praetonius, Giovanni Gabrieli, Orlando Lassus, and others.
  • Saturday, January 26, 2013Lincoln Middle SchoolImmortal Mozart and MoreFor our mid-winter concert this season, SFCM proudly presents a chamber orchestra composed of leading musicians from our very own Symphony Syracuse under the baton of Heather Buchman. We bring you Mozart's two exquisite Sinfonie Concertanti, his lighthearted spoof of incompetent musicians, and a divinely lyrical piece by Frederick Delius.

    Mozart Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra, K. 364
    Mozart A Musical Joke, K. 522
    Delius On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring
    Mozart Sinfonia Concertante for Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon and Orchestra, K. 297b
  • Saturday, March 2, 2013Lincoln Middle SchoolATOS Piano TrioATOS Piano TrioSFCM was fortunate to be able to book this Berlin-based piano trio during their American tour next spring. Winners of the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson International Piano Trio Award, they have performed hundreds of concerts and appeared at prestigious festivals throughout Europe, and in the past year have made important debuts at London's Wigmore Hall, Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, and Carnegie Hall to capacity audiences and critical acclaim. For SFCM they will play an all-French program.

    Claude Debussy Trio in G Major
    Cecile Chaminade Trio No. 2 in A minor, Op. 34
    Gabriel Fauré Trio in D Major, Op. 120
    Lili Boulanger D'un matin de printemps
    Jean Françaix Trio in D major
  • Saturday, March 30, 2013Lincoln Middle SchoolBoston Chamber Music SocietyBoston Chamber Music SocietyFounded in 1982, BCMS is an ensemble of superb musicians who come together in varying combinations of instruments that make possible some very interesting programming. We agree that their performances are "vivid, compelling, and first rate!" (The Boston Globe). This will be their sixth return engagement with SFCM.

    Beethoven String Trio in C minor, Op. 9, No. 3
    Max Bruch Pieces, Op. 83 for clarinet, viola and piano
    Stravinsky L'Histoire du Soldat Suite for clarinet, violin and piano
    Schumann Piano Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 47
  • Saturday, May 4, 2013Lincoln Middle SchoolPacifica String QuartetPacifica String QuartetExciting news! The Grammy Award-winning Pacifica Quartet has been appointed Quartet-in-Residence at the prëeminent Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, further securing their reputation as one of the world's foremost ensembles. In their three previous concerts here, SFCM audiences have been thrilled by their virtuosity and exuberant style.

    Boccherini Quartet in E-flat major Op. 58, No. 2
    Shostakovich Quartet No. 2
    Smetana Quartet No. 1, "From my Life"

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Friday, April 19, 2013
Harlem String Quartet
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College, Syracuse University
This concert, presented in conjunction with Syracuse University, is not part of the subscription series. SU students, faculty, and staff will be admitted free.