Musicians from the New York Philharmonic & Gilles Vonsattel, piano play Beethoven, Brahms, and Clara Schumann

This intimate chamber music concert, featuring Musicians from the New York Philharmonic and award-winning pianist Gilles Vonsattel, explores the intimacy of the Clara Schumann/Brahms connection. Featuring a selection of Clara Schumann’s solo piano works and her character-filled Three Romances, Op. 22, juxtaposed with Brahms’ C-Minor Piano Quartet, which magnificently captures his unrequited love for Clara in music, the program offers a microcosm of a rich creative and emotional world interweaving creator and muse. Also on the program, an early Beethoven work of pure sunshine, the composer’s G-Major String Trio.

Musicians from the New York Philharmonic
Sheryl Staples, violin
Rebecca Young, viola
Eileen Moon-Myers, cello

C. Schumann, Notturno, Op. 6, No. 2
C. Schumann, Scherzo No. 2, Op. 14
Beethoven, String Trio in G Major, Op. 9, No. 1
C. Schumann, Three Pieces for violin and piano, Op. 22
Brahms, Piano Quartet No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 60