LINCOLN CENTER

Alice Tully Hall
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

Through the Great War

Dohnányi - Quintet No. 2 in E-flat minor for Piano, Two Violins, Viola, and Cello, Op. 26 (1914)
Ravel - Le tombeau de Couperin for Wind Quintet (1914-17)
Elgar - Quintet in A minor for Piano, Two Violins, Viola, and Cello, Op. 84 (1918-19)

Artists of all genres responded to World War One with works of unprecedented depth, intensity, and beauty. The deeply felt perspectives of Hungarian, French, and English composers merge in a unified, transnational condemnation of war and a yearning for peace.