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09/08/2026

Score Study // Follow along to Dvořák’s Piano Quintet No. 2! 🎼

After abandoning many drafts, the Czech composer finished this late Romantic chamber music classic—a favorite of his friend Tchaikovsky—in 1887.

🎥 Chad Hoopes, violin; Paul Huang, violin; Matthew Lipman, viola; Dmitri Atapine, cello; Wu Han, piano

09/01/2026

Witold Lutosławski wrote Variations on a Theme of Paganini for two pianos in occupied Warsaw in 1941. After the Germans banned public concerts, Lutosławski and fellow Polish composer Andrzej Panufnik formed a café piano duo. Of the more than 200 arrangements they produced together, only the Variations survived the 1944 Warsaw Uprising.

This 2016 Alice Tully Hall performance features Wu Qian and Juho Pohjonen, piano.

08/31/2026

Australian composer, clarinetist, and conductor Paul Dean wrote his Suite for Clarinet and Cello in 2019 during a year as composer-in-residence with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. He described the piece as being written for his “two favourite instruments.”

This 2024 Rose Studio performance features clarinetest Jose Franch-Ballester and cellist Mihai Ma**ca.

08/28/2026

Ludwig van Beethoven dedicated his String Quartet No. 11, Op. 95 ("Serioso") to his friend Nikolaus Zmeskall, an amateur cellist and Hungarian court secretary in Vienna. Beethoven wrote to the English conductor George Smart that the piece—considered the last of his middle-period string quartets—was for “a small circle of connoisseurs and is never to be performed in public.”

This 2025 Alice Tully Hall performance features the Calidore String Quartet: Jeffrey Meyers and Ryan Meehan, violins; Jeremy Berry, viola; and Estelle Choi, cello.

08/25/2026

Happy birthday to the great Leonard Bernstein—inimitable American composer, conductor, and pianist—born on this day in 1918 in Lawrence, Massachusetts.

He wrote his brief work Canon for Aaron in 1970 for his longtime friend and mentor Aaron Copland.

This 2019 Rose Studio performance features Cho-Liang Lin, violin, and Jon Kimura Parker, piano.

08/22/2026

Happy birthday to Claude Debussy, born on this day in 1862.

The influential French Impressionist composer composed his Piano Trio in G major at 18, in the summer of 1880, while working as a children's music tutor.

This 2024 Rose Studio performance features Anna Geniushene, piano; Lun Li, violin; and Sterling Elliott, cello.

Listen to CMS's brand new album, Debussy's Chamber Music, at Apple Music—link in our bio.

Today, the Chamber Music Society releases Debussy’s Chamber Music, our newest album made in collaboration with Apple Mus...
08/21/2026

Today, the Chamber Music Society releases Debussy’s Chamber Music, our newest album made in collaboration with Apple Music! 🎧💐

Curated by our Co-Artistic Directors David Finckel and Wu Han, the album features a collection of landmark CMS performances of works by the trailblazing French composer, from solo piano reveries like the timeless Clair de lune to his singularly brilliant String Quartet (heard here, performed by the Danish String Quartet).

Listen to the album now at the link in our bio. We hope you enjoy it! 🇫🇷

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