Name: The Met Orchestra Chamber Ensemble
Start: 2024-03-11T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-03-11T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Carnegie Hall

Organization

Orchestra

The MET Orchestra Chamber Ensemble

Carnegie Hall

Singer

Nadine Sierra

Soprano

The Met Orchestra Chamber Ensemble

New York City

United States

Weill Recital Hall

The Met Orchestra Chamber Ensemble: Fantasia for Theremin, Oboe, String Quartet and Piano. H. 301 Martinů (+5 More)

Public

Fantasia for Theremin, Oboe, String Quartet and Piano. H. 301

Bachianas brasileiras

Chôros No.4, W218

Octet for wind instruments

Melodia Sentimental, A. 555

Two Motets (arr. Davies)

Approved

Villa-Lobos: Bachianas brasileiras No. 5, W. 389, 1. Aria (Cantilena) [ Live at Borchardt, Berlin / 2018 ]

"I feel deep down that we can make a change in the right direction and that the right direction is about uniting people." – Nadine Sierra

Nadine Sierra, 2018 winner of the Metropolitan Opera’s prestigious Beverly Sills Artist Award, has made her first album for Deutsche Grammophon and Decca Gold, having signed an exclusive contract with the labels last year. There’s a Place for Us was recorded with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Robert Spano. The album presents the soprano’s stunning vocal abilities in an eclectic choice of American classical music – as well as works by Bernstein, the repertoire ranges from Stephen Foster and Douglas Moore to Stravinsky and Villa-Lobos, and on again to Ricky Ian Gordon, Osvaldo Golijov and Christopher Theofanidis, with texts in Spanish and Portuguese as well as English.

Villa-Lobos: Bachianas brasileiras No. 5, W. 389 - 1. Aria (Cantilena) (Live at Borchar...

The always-evolving Met Orchestra Chamber Ensemble lets members of The Met Orchestra explore the boundless world of chamber music. It’s a vehicle that yields rare experiences for artists and audience alike, such as this program featuring Met Orchestra Music Director and Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin playing the piano for Elgar’s Piano Quintet. This unique concert also includes a brass quartet by Villa-Lobos plus one of the composer’s Bach-meets-Brazil works, which features renowned soprano Nadine Sierra. Martinů’s Fantasia for Theremin, Oboe, String Quartet, and Piano rounds out the performance.

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Ensemble