BAE NEWS

The Boston Artists Ensemble announces its 2011-2012 series of fine chamber music concerts.

An impressive roster of world class musicians is scheduled to play the five programs.

Violin: David Coucheron, Tatiana Dimitriades, Bayla Keyes,Julianne Lee, Yura Lee, Sharan Leventhal, Irina Muresano.
Viola: Lila Brown, Edward Gazouleas, Beth Gutermann, Kathryn Lockwood.
Cello:  Blaise Dejardin, Jonathan Miller
Piano: Randall Hodgkinson

The program for September 23 and 25 will consist of two peerless works from the piano trio repertoire that balance lyricism and drama: Schumann’s Trio in D minor, Opus 63 and Schubert’s Trio in B-flat, Opus 99, D898. In addition, the audience will be invited to identify BAE’s signature “mystery piece.”

On November 6 and 11 the program will open with a charming, effervescent Boccherini Cello Quintet in D, Opus 29, No. 1, followed by two rich, impassioned  string sextets from their composers’ early years: the Brahms Sextet in B-flat, Opus 18, and the ultra-romantic Schoenberg “Verklärte Nacht,” Opus 4.

For January 20 and 22 the Boston Artists Ensemble plays two masterworks that are different in temperament but equally powerful in composition: Mozart’s Quartet in B-flat, K589, with its transcendent cello writing, and Bartok’s Quartet No. 4, whose five-movement “arch” form brings order and symmetry to the rhythmically pulsing material.

The March 16 and 18 concerts begin with Mozart’s elegant E-flat Piano Quartet, K493, followed by the profound Beethoven Cello Sonata in D, Opus 102 No.2, the composer’s only cello sonata with a full slow movement. They end with Franck’s Piano Quintet in F minor, a passionate and majestic work.

The final program, April 13 and 15, begins with Beethoven’s comic Duet for Viola and Cello, “With Two Eyeglasses Obligato.” Dohnanyi’s Serenade for String Trio in C which follows is described by esteemed musicologist Donald Tovey as a “complete masterpiece.” Schubert’s Quartet in D minor, D810, “Death and the Maiden,” brings the concert and the season to a close. A young girl entreats approaching Death to pass her by in Schubert’s song of the same title, which provides the basis for the quartet’s deeply moving slow movement.

For further information, please call BAE at (617) 527-8662.