Event

Musicians From 'A Far Cry' Presented By The Portsmouth Athenaeum

Six musicians from Bostons acclaimed string ensemble A Far Cry will join us again to perform a trio and two quintets. Dvoraks Terzetto in C Major, a rare trio for viola and two violins, was composed when Dvorak, himself a violist, lived next door to a violin student and his teacher playing duets and wanted to join them! Mendelssohns joyous Quintet in A Major, though written when Mendelssohn was only 17, is considered a full-fledged manifestation of the composers maturity in all its still youthful splendor and includes the occasional bursts of fire-breathing virtuoso finger-work from the first violin that characterizes his string chamber music. Brahms intended his Viola Quintet in G Major to be his final work, but he continued to compose, and the luscious and romantic quintet itself, permeated with an Austrian vivacity, gives no hint of being planned as a valedictory work.

$20/advance $25/door