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An evening of piano four-hands and Mendelssohn’s Octet launch Seattle Chamber Music Society’s summer festival, with distinct personalities repeatedly braiding into something larger.

Chamber music values and luxury casting with world-class string players enriched this hefty program of an elegiac Bach sonata and valedictory works by Bartók and Brahms.

All three works were spirited, full of bravura and performed with panache and undisputed virtuosity.