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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.

An extraordinary group of musicians join violinist Maxim Vengerov in performing two chamber music jewels by Johannes Brahms.

Joana Carneiro, the Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center and music by Frank, Shostakovich, Ravel and Prokofiev fused into something that transcended them all.

In his Cleveland Orchestra debut, Petr Popelka skirts the warhorses: a Franck tone poem, a Dvořák symphony and Korngold’s Violin Concerto with James Ehnes.

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.

Under the exemplary leadership of concertmaster Andrew Wan, the OSM presented a diverse program of well-known compositions for chamber orchestra.

An auspiciously successful concert for the LPO and their new Principal Conductor Designate Edward Gardner, crowned by an exceptional performance of the Nielsen.