Mendelssohn Festival I with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

MENDELSSOHN FESTIVAL

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center bring the exuberant energy of Felix Mendelssohn to the Four Arts stage. His daring masterpieces for familiar and novel mixes of string instruments and keyboards are combined with music from his greatest inspirations, W.A. Mozart and J.S. Bach, and by his good friend Robert Schumann.

Mendelssohn’s music is equal parts ecstatic and spiritual. His second Cello Sonata bursts with a fluttering sense of fun, but also contains one of the most touching, prayerful slow movements he wrote. His early Violin Sonata in F Major was revived by the great violinist Yehudi Menuhin, and the powerful, triumphant Piano Trio No. 2 completes a program of inspired chamber music by Mendelssohn as violinist Julien Rhee joins pianist Wu Han and cellist David Finckel, the co-artistic directors of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.