Beethoven breaks free from his Classical roots, while Arcuri animates fantastical scenes from Medieval manuscripts. Clarke plays hide and seek with quixotic clouds, and Adès unveils Couperin’s enigma for the 21st century with a shimmering, kaleidoscopic trompe l’oeil. Shostakovich, too, looks to the past, bringing Baroque grandeur to his electrifying brand of modernism, as shadows of history give way to the future.

PROGRAM:

Rebecca Clarke, Midsummer Moon for violin & piano (1926)
Serge Arcuri, Les Furieuses enluminures for flute, clarinet, piano & string quartet
Ludwig van Beethoven, Quintet in E-flat Major for piano & winds, Op. 16
Thomas Adès, Les baricades mistérieuses for clarinet, bass clarinet, viola, cello & double bass
Dmitri Shostakovich, Piano Quintet in g minor, Op. 57