Spring Chamber Music Concert: Mozart & Mendelssohn
The third chamber music concert of the 2025-2026 season will include three extraordinary string quintets and a world premiere. All pieces are known as “viola” quintets, in that they are written for a typical string quartet configuration [two violins, viola, and cello] with an additional viola. This type of scoring allows for soaring melodies in all registers and complex inner voices.
Mozart’s Quintet No 5 in D Major was written just one year before his death and is widely considered to be one of his final chamber masterpieces. Mendelssohn’s Quintet in Bb major was also written towards the end of his life- two years before his death- and wasn’t published until a number of years after his death. In Brahms’ own words in a letter to Clara Schumann he stated that it “is one of [his] finest works”. This piece is often called the “Spring” quintet, particularly apt to our May concert.
The world premiere is a quintet commissioned for this concert from Manhattan School of Music composer and Ossining resident David Macdonald. It is a four movement work based on four different hymn tunes.
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