The BAE 28th season offers a season of beloved standards with winderful surprises mixed in. The 2008-9 opening concert features the rare and profound final Schumann Piano Trio in G minor in addition to the exciting young viola star Beth Guterman. In January we present masterworks of the fabulous combination of string quartet with an extra viola. Distinguished soprano Elizabeth Keusch and flutist Elizabeth Ostling return in February to join in a performance of Ravel’s exotic Madagascar songs. BSO assistant principal clarinetist Thomas Martin appears in March for the charming and passionately gallic d’Indy Trio. In April we are bringing, directly from Paris, one of the world’s most illustrious players of the glass harmonica, Thomas Bloch who will join us for the U.S. premeire performace of a work by CPE Bach. The season ends with a new beginning: Schubert’s touching Quartettsatz will herald a four-year celebration of the composer’s quartets, both the well-known and the unjustly neglected.

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