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Profound musical expression shrinks against the majesty of the setting, but ends up all the more profound, in the summer chamber music series.

Seattle's 2019 Chamber Music Summer Festival premiered Sebastian Currier's Voyage Out, which uses the piano quintet to reimagine the metaphor of musical journeys, on a program framed by passionate 19th-century chamber compositions.

Joshua Bell and other musical heavyweights fail to impress in an evening of Czech chamber works well-known and otherwise.

Perfectly judged Brahms from the Schubert Ensemble, complemented by satisfyingly rustic Dvořák.

Bohuslav Martinů's Piano Quartet no. 1 (1942) is a beautiful work. The first and third movements are sharp and witty pieces which touch on jazz influences almost as strongly as on Bohemian folk music.