Community Calendar

We close the Schenectady season with the first half of a celebration of the 200th Anniversary of Beethoven’s passing. Three of the world’s greatest ensembles—the Belcea, Brentano, and Ébène —will each present two programs traversing the composer’s sixteen string quartets in Spring and Fall 2027.

This Parisian ensemble has dazzled our audience and those around the world with their awe-inspiring cohesiveness and scintillating performances. The Ébène plays the complete Beethoven cycle this season at Carnegie Hall, and we’re thrilled to have them be part of ours.

BEETHOVEN QUARTET CYCLE (PART I)
G-major Quartet, Op. 18, No. 2
F-major Quartet, Op. 135
C-sharp Minor Quartet, Op. 131

We close the Schenectady season with the first half of a celebration of the 200th Anniversary of Beethoven’s passing. Three of the world’s greatest ensembles—the Belcea, Brentano, and Ébène —will each present two programs traversing the composer’s sixteen string quartets in Spring and Fall 2027.

This Parisian ensemble has dazzled our audience and those around the world with their awe-inspiring cohesiveness and scintillating performances. The Ébène plays the complete Beethoven cycle this season at Carnegie Hall, and we’re thrilled to have them be part of ours.

BEETHOVEN QUARTET CYCLE (PART I)
A-major Quartet, Op. 18, No. 5
C-minor Quartet, Op. 18, No. 4
E-flat Major Quartet, Op. 127

We close the Schenectady season with the first half of a celebration of the 200th Anniversary of Beethoven’s passing. Three of the world’s greatest ensembles—the Belcea, Brentano, and Ébène —will each present two programs traversing the composer’s sixteen string quartets in Spring and Fall 2027.

Yale’s Quartet-in-Residence returns after their exquisite traversal of Haydn’s Op. 33 quartets last February. Renowned for their profound musicianship and passionate playing, the Brentano offers the first of two Beethoven programs before returning this fall.

BEETHOVEN QUARTET CYCLE (PART I)
“Razumovsky” Quartet, Op. 59, No. 1
D-major Quartet, Op. 18, No. 3
“Razumovsky” Quartet, Op. 59, No. 2

Fast becoming a favorite, Lewis was featured at last year’s benefit after an incredible debut in 2024. Having appeared last season with Gidon Kremer’s Kremerata Baltica, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony, and many other international orchestras, she plays a program culminating with Strauss’s impassioned sonata.

Mozart: G-major Sonata, K. 379
Silvestrov: Two Pieces
Weinberg: Fifth Sonata, Op. 53
Webern: Four Pieces
Strauss: Sonata, Op. 18

Clarion Concerts and the exciting young Verona Quartet bring string quartets of Mendelssohn, Bacewicz and Beethoven to the Hudson Valley! Among the most distinguished ensembles on the chamber music scene today, the award-winning Verona Quartet's adventurous new recording, Shatter, entered the Billboard Classical music chart at #1. Their program combines a much-beloved early quartet by Mendelssohn with a work by the under-appreciated Polish woman composer Grażyna Bacewicz and the first of Beethoven's Razumovsky quartets. Treat yourself to a luscious end-of-summer evening of beautiful chamber music!