Miniatures and Monuments

Founded in the spring of 2013, the Chamber Music Society of San Francisco was born out of a collective desire to perform the great chamber music repertoire.  Dedicated to bringing these masterworks to diverse audiences, CMSSF is passionate about concertizing in intimate settings, creating close connections between performers and listeners, and cultivating a relationship between music and audiences that extends far beyond the perimeter of the concert hall.CMSSF brings together Bay Area musicians of diverse musical experience.  They can be heard performing with the San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco Opera, San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, Oakland Symphony, Magik*Magik Orchestra, as well as many other chamber ensembles, including early music, jazz, tango, and pop.Founding members Natasha Makhijani, Jory Fankuchen, Clio Tilton and Samsun van Loon came together through their mutual love of the late Beethoven String Quartets.  Forming a core to collaborate with guest artists, highlights of our fourth season include collaboration with premier Bay Area musicians and expansion to the sextet repertoire.More info at www.chambermusicsocietysf.org

Chamber Music Society of San Francisco

Program:
Anton Webern – Langsamer Satz Anton Webern – 6 Bagatelles for String Quartet op.9
Franz Schubert – Quartettsatz D. 703
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Franz Schubert – Cello Quintet in C Major D. 956
reception with the artists to follow
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T​his program revolves around one of our favorite composers, Franz Schubert. We’re thrilled to be collaborating with guest artist Hannah Addario-Berry, bringing you Schubert’s epic cello quintet. Alongside the quintet, we’ll be playing some much briefer but equally moving works by Anton Webern. Webern was born just 50 years after Schubert’s death, but his musical language is worlds away. 
Webern's Langsamer Satz is saturated with ultra-romanticism, and stands in stark contrast to the Six Bagatelles, in which he turns to the a-tonal and ultra-modern.  The juxtaposition is fascinating, and a moving representation of the real artistic turmoil that Webern and his contemporaries lived in.  
Though only 24 years old when he wrote it, Quartettsatz marks Schubert's entry into his mature compositional period.  In just one movement, the best of his passionate fire and silken heartache are woven tightly together.  Schubert completed his monumental Cello Quintet a mere two months before his death.  It is the culmination of the late period that Quartettsatz ushered in - a tome of beauty, sorrow, and joy.  
more at www.chambermusicsocietysf.org

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