For our Spring, 2017, concert, guest artists Teresa Cheung and Sophie Shao team up with the orchestra in music of Brahms and Elgar.
Important Note: Uptown local #1 trains won’t be stopping between 96th and 168th this weekend. You’ll need to go uptown to 168th, then take the downtown #1 to 116th Street.
Our 2016-17 season continues featuring a performance of Schumann’s virtuosic Konzertstück for 4 Horns, plus music of Purcell and Dvořák’s Fifth Symphony.
We kick off the 2016-17 season with an exciting program of three works that are new to the orchestra.
‘Cellist Maxine Neuman returns with music director Mike Tietz in the Dvorak ‘Cello Concerto, and works by Haydn, Weber, and Marquez.
Music Director Mike Tietz leads the orchestra with violin prodigy Yaegy Park in music of Bach, Beethoven, Milhaud and Poulenc.
Guest conductor Diane Wittry returns with music of Strauss, Brahms and a work of her own.
Tuesday June 3, 2014 at 7:30pm, The Broadway Bach Ensemble presents a free summer concert of chamber music, featuring musicians from the orchestra.
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Trio Op. 1 No. 3
1st Movement: Allegro con Brio
Sylvia Rubin, Violin
Ann Taylor, ‘Cello
Alison Brewster Franzetti, Piano
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Clarinet Quintet K581
1st Movement: Allegro
Robert Snyder, Clarinet
David Obelkevich, Violin I
Harriet Levine, Violin II
Susan Borbay, Viola
Lenny Mims, ‘Cello
Gordon Jacob: Miniature Suite for for Clarinet and Viola
1. March. Alla marcia, giocoso
2. Berceuse. Andante tranquillo
3. Minuet and Trio. Grazioso, poco meno mosso
4. Fugue. Allegro molto
Paula Washington, Viola
Aaron Abramovitz, Clarinet
Felix Mendelssohn: Piano Trio in C minor, Op. 66
1st Movement: Allegro energico e con fuoco
Guy Kettelhack, Violin
Mike Tietz, ‘Cello
Arlene Hajinlian, Piano
Gioacchino Rossini: Quartet for Flute, Violin, Viola and Violoncello No. 1 in G Major
1. Moderato
3. Rondo Allegro
David Rosen, Flute
Nina Basescu, Violin
Nancy Dunetz, Viola
Lenny Mims, ‘Cello
Eduard Franck (1817-1893): String Sextet #1 in Eb Major, Op. 41
1st Movement: Allegro
Arun Ravi, Violin I
Louise Moed,Violin II
Tom Frenkel, Viola I
Daniel Hyman,Viola II
Kurt Behnke, ‘Cello
Morton Cohn – Bass
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Ave Verum Corpus
Tom Flaherty: A ‘Cellist’s Variations on Home on the Range
‘Cello Quartet: “A Consonance of ‘Cellos”
Steve Flanders
Mike Tietz
Kurt Behnke
Carl Courant
Michael F. Tietz leads the orchestra in Mozart’s Symphony No. 39, and more.
Music director Mike Tietz leads the orchestra in Dvorak’s beautiful Eighth Symphony, and more.
Guest conductor Christopher Hisey returns with soprano Stephanie Gregory, in a program of Richard Strauss and Shostakovich.
Originally titled Lament, the Lyric for Strings was first composed as the second movement of Walker's String Quartet No. 1 in 1946 while he was a graduate student at the Curtis Institute of Music. Read more →
This symphony was written in 1793 in Vienna in anticipation of Haydn's second trip to London. Read more →
Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1909. It was written for the Cambridge Greek Play production of Aristophanes' The Wasps at Trinity College, Cambridge, and was Vaughan Williams' first of only three forays into incidental music. Read more →
The composer dedicated the concerto to Natalie Ouchkoff, his fiancé, whom he married the year of the composition's premiere. The work's production came at a time of little repertoire for the double bass, which was often considered as an instrument only for ensembles. Read more →