2025 Chamber Music Concerts
16 Consecutive Sundays at 3 PM Starting June 1
& NEW THIS YEAR, 3 Consecutive Saturdays at 7 PM Starting June 14
*Pre-Concert Talks and Family Concert start at 2 PM
Gordon Hall, Music Mountain, Falls Village, CT
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JUNE 1 - Sunday at 3 PM
96TH SEASON OPENING BENEFIT CONCERT & RECEPTION
Benjamin Hochman & Friends from the Met Opera Play Beethoven and Brahms
Benjamin Hochman, Piano
Benjamin Bowman, Violin
Milan Milisavljević, Viola
Joel Noyes, Cello
Ludwig van BEETHOVEN Piano Trio in B Flat Major, Opus 97, "Archduke"
Johannes BRAHMS Piano Quartet in G Minor, Opus 25
Underwritten by the Smart Family Foundation of New York, A. Douglas Stone and Barbara von Bechtolsheim


JUNE 8 
Balourdet Quartet & Misha Dichter, Piano 
Paul NOVAK Impossible Inventions
Bedřich SMETANA String Quartet in E Minor, "From my Life"
Antonín DVORÁK Piano Quintet in A Major, Opus 81
Underwritten in memory of Peter Schuyten


JUNE 14 - Saturday at 7 PM
Misha Dichter, Piano
Ludwig van BEETHOVEN Polonaise in C Major
Johannes BRAHMS Piano Sonata #3 in F Minor, Opus 5
Frédéric CHOPIN 4 Mazurkas & Polonaise in F Sharp Minor
Sergei PROKOFIEV Piano Sonata #7 in B Flat Major


JUNE 15 
Lysander Piano Trio
Robert SCHUMANN (arr. Kirchner) 6 Pieces in Canonic Form, Opus 56 (selections)
Dmitri SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Trio in E Minor, Opus 67
Arvo PÄRT Mozart-Adagio
Felix MENDELSSOHN Piano Trio in D Minor, Opus 49


JUNE 21 - Saturday at 7 PM
Fei-Fei, Piano
Claude DEBUSSY Suite bergamasque, L. 75 
Sergei RACHMANINOFF Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Opus 42
Nadia BOULANGER Vers la vie nouvelle ("Towards New Life")
Franz LISZT Piano Sonata in B Minor


JUNE 22 
Marmen Quartet & Victoria Schwartzman, Piano
Franz Joseph HAYDN String Quartet in D Major, Opus 33/6, “The Joke”
Seth GROSSHANDLER Dances for String Quartet
Johannes BRAHMS Piano Quintet in F Minor, Opus 34
Underwritten by an Anonymous Donor


JUNE 28 - Saturday at 7 PM
Wynona Wang, Piano
Domenico SCARLATTI Sonata in D Minor, K. 213 & Sonata in D Major, K. 29
Zhao ZHANG Kangding Love Song & Pi Huang
Franz SCHUBERT Wanderer Fantasy
Sergei RACHMANINOFF Piano Sonata #1 in D Minor, Opus 28


JUNE 29 
Euclid Quartet
George Meyer, Viola
Leo Singer, Cello
(See Pre-Concert Talk)*
Franz Joseph HAYDN String Quartet in D Minor, Opus 76/2, "Quinten"
Hugo KAUDER String Sextet
Pyotr Ilyich TCHAIKOVSKY Souvenir de Florence for String Sextet in D Major, Opus 70
Underwritten by the Hugo Kauder Society


JULY 6 
Arianna String Quartet & Judith Gordon, Piano
(See Pre-Concert Talk)*
Ludwig van BEETHOVEN String Quartet in F Major, Opus 18/1
Joan TOWER Night Fields
Erich Wolfgang KORNGOLD Piano Quintet in E Major, Opus 15
Underwritten in honor of Harold and Deko Klebanoff, recipients of the 2025 Music Mountain Lifetime Achievement Award


JULY 13 
Penderecki String Quartet & Paul Marleyn, Cello
Johannes BRAHMS String Quartet in B flat Major, Opus 67
Dinuk WIJERATNE A Letter from the Afterlife
Franz SCHUBERT Cello Quintet in C Major, Opus 163, D. 956
Underwritten by Michelle Duffy and Robert Connell


JULY 20
Reverón Piano Trio 
Oskar Espina Ruiz, Clarinet
Ludwig van BEETHOVEN Piano Trio in D Major, Opus 70, "Ghost"
Gabriela LENA FRANK Hilos (“Threads”) for clarinet, violin, cello and piano
Johannes BRAHMS Piano Trio in B Major, Opus 8


JULY 27
American String Quartet & Daniel Avshalomov, Viola
Followed by Tapas on the Lawn 
(See Pre-Concert Talk)*
Ludwig van BEETHOVEN String Quartet in F Minor, Opus 95, "Serioso"
Maurice RAVEL String Quartet in F Major
Johannes BRAHMS String Quintet in G Major, Opus 111
Underwritten by William Gillers


AUGUST 3
Verona Quartet
Felix MENDELSSOHN String Quartet in A Minor, Opus 13, "Ist es wahr?" ("Is it true?")
Duke ELLINGTON Cotton Club Stomp
Donald HEYWOOD I'm Coming Virginia
Bix BEIDERBECKE In the Dark
Vincent YOUMANS Tea for Two
Dmitri SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartet #9 in E Flat Major, Opus 117
Underwritten by Alfred Brooks and Peter Lombardo in memory of Charles Hewett


AUGUST 10
Ying Quartet
Hugo WOLF Italian Serenade in G Major
Giacomo PUCCINI Chrysanthemums
Antonín DVORÁK String Quartet in F Major, Opus 96, "American"
Franz SCHUBERT String Quartet in D Minor, D. 810, "Death and the Maiden"
Underwritten by Bill and Carol Oliver


AUGUST 17
Erinys Quartet
Franz Joseph HAYDN String Quartet in B Minor, Opus 33/1
Benjamin BRITTEN String Quartet #2 in C Major, Opus 36
Claude DEBUSSY String Quartet in G Minor, Opus 10


AUGUST 24
Cuarteto Latinoamericano & Oskar Espina Ruiz, Clarinet
(See Pre-Concert Talk)*
Luigi BOCCHERINI String Quartet in A Major, G. 206
Stefano SCODANIBBIO Due canzoni messicane 
Gonzalo CASTELLANOS YUMAR Fantasía
Alfonso FUENTES Clarinet Quintet (World Premiere)
Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART Clarinet Quintet in A Major, K. 581
Underwritten by Thomas C. Ragan


AUGUST 31
Ulysses Quartet & Max Levinson, Piano
(See Family Concert)*
Jessie MONTGOMERY "Voodoo Dolls"
Mieczysław WEINBERG Capriccio, Opus 11
Ludwig van BEETHOVEN String Quartet in B Flat Major, Opus 18/6, "La Malinconia"
César FRANCK Piano Quintet in F Minor, Opus 14


SEPTEMBER 7
Cassatt String Quartet & Magdalena Baczewska, Piano
(See Pre-Concert Talk)*
Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART String Quartet in E Flat Major, K. 428
Dmitri SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartet #14 in F Sharp Major, Opus 142
Robert SCHUMANN Piano Quintet in E Flat Major, Opus 44
Underwritten by Ann M. McKinney in honor of Marilyn Appel


SEPTEMBER 14
96TH SEASON FINALE BENEFIT CONCERT & RECEPTION
Juilliard String Quartet & Ronald Copes, Viola
Ludwig van BEETHOVEN String Quartet in A Minor, Opus 132
Antonín DVORÁK String Quintet in E Flat Major, Opus 97, "American"
Underwritten by Mike Abram and Vivian Garfein Abram