Name: The Met Orchestra Chamber Ensemble
Start: 2023-12-11T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-12-11T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Carnegie Hall

Organization

Orchestra

The MET Orchestra Chamber Ensemble

Carnegie Hall

Instrumentalist

Bryan Wagorn

Piano

Singer

Soprano

Isabel Leonard

Soloist

The Met Orchestra Chamber Ensemble

New York City

United States

Weill Recital Hall

The Met Orchestra Chamber Ensemble: Chansons madécasses Ravel (+4 More)

Public

Ekitundu Ekisooka

Quintet for Clarinet and String Quartet

LIgNEous 1

Piano Quintet in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 67

Chanson perpétuelle, Op.37

Approved

After a remarkable opening to the concert, in which mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard performs Ravel’s Chansons madécasses, the program shifts to music written for string quartets—and quartets powerfully augmented into quintets. It begins with Justinian Tamusuza’s bright and driving Ekitundu Ekisooka, made world famous by the Kronos Quartet’s chart-topping Pieces of Africa. Two movements follow from James Lee III’s Clarinet Quintet, recently premiered by the Pacifica Quartet and New York Philharmonic principal clarinetist Anthony McGill. Andy Akiho’s exhilarating LIgNEouS 1 features extended technique from string and percussion instruments alike. The program closes with Beach’s potent Piano Quintet, which includes direct references to Brahms’s seminal Piano Quintet.

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Ensemble