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Four hands, 32 strings: Seattle Chamber Music Society’s opener

James Ehnes leads Mendelssohn’s Octet © Jena Poppe

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.

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Seattle Chamber Music Society launches its 2025 summer festival

Ehnes Quartet and Beth Guterman Chu © Jorge Gustavo Elias
The Seattle Chamber Music Society opens its 2025 summer festival with a program of striking emotional depth, musical refinement and rapturous ensemble connection.
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Brandenburg brilliance at the Montreal Chamber Music Festival

James Ehnes and friends © Luc Lauzière
With the audience sitting on stage with the performers and in the choir loft, this feels like the kind of communal experience that Bach would have recognized.
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An opening night of substance at Seattle’s Chamber Music Festival

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.

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Rare Respighi shines in Seattle Chamber Music Society online stream

After solo Bach, Alessio Bax joins string players for the Italian's Brahmsian Piano Quintet in F minor.
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Seattle Chamber Music Society's Summer Festival opens with bravado

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

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