Pythagoras: Trio-Quartet-Quintet, Part II (A Friends of Music at Pequot Library Concert)

The first Friends of Music Concert of the 2012-13 Season!The season opens with an encore of the extraordinary concert given last Spring by pianist Eugene Sirotkine and friends. Based on the sequence Trio-Quartet-Quintet and introduced by a pair of preludes and fugues, it offered lesser known treasures of chamber music. This season, their program includes Beethoven’s last piano trio, Schubert’s exquisite movement for an unfinished string quartet and Brahms’s monumental quintet, one of the greatest masterpieces in all chamber music.The Program:    Bach, JS: Two Preludes & Fugues for Piano    Beethoven: Trio for Piano, Violin & Cello in G major Op. 121a, "Kakadu Variations"    Schubert: String Quartet No. 12 in C minor D. 703    Brahms: Quintet for Piano, 2 Violins, Viola & Cello in F minor Op. 34a The Musicians:     Eugene Sirotkine, piano    Noah Bendix-Balgley & Cecee Pantikian, violin    David Harding, viola    Mikhail Istomin, cello