LINCOLN CENTER

Alice Tully Hall
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

Mendelssohn's Sorrow

Bach - Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue in D minor for Keyboard, BWV 903 (before 1723)
Mendelssohn - Fugue in E-flat major for String Quartet, Op. 81, No. 4 (1827)
Mendelssohn - Quartet in F minor for Strings, Op. 80 (1847)
Schumann - Arabesque in C major for Piano, Op. 18 (1838-39)
Schumann - Trio No. 1 D minor for Piano, Violin, and Cello, Op. 63 (1847)

"The height of our joys may be measured by the depth of our sorrows, and this final Winter Festival program visits extremes of the human experience. The darkness of Bach’s fugue is brightened in one by Mendelssohn; Schumann’s emotional piano trio is contrasted by the serenity of his Arabesque. But life’s thick clouds have often brought forth music of agonizing beauty: In his moving final string quartet, Mendelssohn openly grieves over the passing of his beloved sister."