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Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s “Front Row: National”

Cho-Liang Lin, violinist

Virtual event

Watch the event beginning at noon Monday, November 15. It will be available for streaming until noon Friday, November 19.

 

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s Front Row: National virtual concert collection features beautifully shot, full-length HD performance videos from the society’s archive, curated by organization Artistic Directors David Finckel and Wu Han.

The series was created to provide a new way for audiences to experience chamber music in a meaningful and innovative way—from the virtual “front row,” in the comfort and safety of listeners’ homes.

This episode of the recorded digital series features violinist Cho-Liang Lin, who performed in-person at the Center for the Performing Arts in 1987. Lin is acclaimed throughout the world for the eloquence of his playing and his superb musicianship. He has performed with a who’s who of orchestras and chamber ensembles. He also often appears as a recitalist.

Lin serves as artistic director of the Hong Kong International Chamber Music Festival. In 2000, Musical America named him its instrumentalist of the year. He plays a 1715 “Titian” Stradivarius.

The program:

Lukas Foss: “Composer’s Holiday” from Three American Pieces for Violin and Piano (featur9ing Jon Kimura Parker, pianist)

Antonín Dvořák: Larghetto from Sonatina in G Major for Violin and Piano, Op. 100 (featuring Jon Kimura Parker, pianist)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Sextet for Two Violins, Two Violas, and Two Cellos, Op. 70, Souvenir de Florence (featuring Erin Keefe, violinist; Paul Neubauer and Hsin-Yun Huang, violists; Dmitri Atapine and Colin Carr, cellists)