Performer: Yulia Ziskel

A rare outing for Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's Clarinet Quintet in New York along with a youthful Mendelssohn string quartet. 

As part of the New York Philharmonic’s CONTACT new music series at National Sawdust in Brooklyn, Esa-Pekka Salonen drew connections among Olivier Messiaen, two of his students (Pierre Boulez and George Benjamin) and one outlier (Oliver Knussen).