Aspect Chamber Music Series Announces Fall 2022 Concerts

Since 2011, Aspect Chamber Music Series has delighted audiences in New York City and London with its engaging music-and-lecture concert format, presenting acclaimed chamber music ensembles with experts in music, history, and other academia. Taking place in the elegant Bohemian National Hall on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, these intimate concert evenings are a standout in a city with no shortage of cultural programming, with artists at the upper echelon consistently returning to the series. The 2022/23 season features compelling new and returning musicians and speakers, with programs ranging from French Baroque to beloved German Lieder.

Opening night at Aspect Chamber Music Series features a consort of harp (Parker Ramsay), soprano (Margaret Carpenter Haigh), lute (Kevin Payne), and viola da gamba (Arnie Tanimoto) in ??“Music of the Court of Louis XIV.” Caltech Professor Emeritus John Brewer guides the illustrated talk through the program which comprises music by Corbetta, Lully, Couperin, Marais, and Clérambault - Oct. 6, 2022

The acclaimed Escher Quartet takes the stage in “Love & Loss: Brahms and Mendelssohn” with Swedish pianist Per Tengstrand as the speaker - Nov. 3, 2022

“Crossing Parallels: Tchaikovsky & Dvorák” features these two classical giants in a program guided by author, BBC radio presenter, and composer Stephen Johnson, and performed by Philippe Quint & Friends (Jiin Yang, violin; Maurycy Banaszek, viola; Adrian Daurov, cello) and cellist Zlatomir Fung, both veteran Aspect artists - Dec. 7, 2022

Celebrated baritone Tyler Duncan and pianist Erika Switzer join musicologist Nicholas Chong in “Orient in Song,” with Lieder and chanson selections by Schubert, Strauss, Mendelssohn, Wolf, Ravel, Saint-Saëns, and Fauré - Jan. 19, 2023

 

All performances take place at Bohemian National Hall, 321 E. 73rd St, New York, NY 10021

 

“Music of the Court of Louis XIV”

October 6, 2022, 7.30PM

Parker Ramsay, harp

Margaret Carpenter Haigh, soprano

Kevin Payne, lute

Arnie Tanimoto, viola da gamba

Illustrated Talk by John Brewer

Music by Francesco Corbetta, J.B. Lully, Louis Couperin, Marin Marais, L.N. Clérambault

 

“Love & Loss: Brahms & Mendelssohn” 

November 3, 2022, 7.30PM

Escher String Quartet

Illustrated Talk by Per Tengstrand

Brahms - String Quartet No.1 in C minor, Op.51 

Mendelssohn - String Quartet No. 6 in F minor, Op. 80

 

"Crossing Parallels: Tchaikovsky & Dvorák "

December 7, 2022, 7.30PM

Philippe Quint, violin

Jiin Yang, violin

Maurycy Banaszek, viola

Zlatomir Fung, cello

Adrian Daurov,  cello

Illustrated Talk by Stephen Johnson

Dvorák - String Sextet in A major, Op. 48, 

Tchaikovsky - String Sextet in D minor "Souvenir de Florence", Op. 70

 

 

“Orient in Song”

January 19, 2022, 7.30PM

Tyler Duncan, baritone

Erika Switzer, piano 

Illustrated Talk by Nicholas Chong

Schubert — 'Versunken', 'Geheimes', 'Du bist die Ruh'

Strauss — 'Gesänge des Orients', Op.77 (excerpts)

Schubert — 'Suleika I'

Mendelssohn — 'Suleika', Op.34 No.4

Wolf — 'Was in der Schenke waren heute', 'Trunken müssen wir alle sein!', Phänomen'

Ravel — 'Shéhérazade' (excerpts)

Saint-Saëns — 'Mélodies Persanes', Op.26 (excerpts)

Fauré — 'Les roses d’Ispahan', Op.39 No.4

 

Tickets on sale in September at https://www.aspectmusic.net

 

About ASPECT Chamber Music Series

ASPECT Chamber Music Series was founded by Irina Knaster in London in 2011 and relocated to New York City in 2016. ASPECT presents a new concert format – one that transforms the traditional recital into an intimate, engaging, and thought-provoking blend of performance, speech, and image.

 

The series’ chamber-music events feature some of today’s leading musicians and music experts. For each concert, they set the works on the program in context with presentations supported by visuals. These “illustrated talks” reveal fascinating details about the composer, the music, and the cultural history of the period in question. 

 

ASPECT aims both to support and promote artists, and to welcome audiences old and new to explore new aspects of a classical repertoire of endless riches. It’s more than a concert.