Work: Piano Quintet in E flat major, Op.44

Emanuel Ax joins members of the New York Philharmonic for an afternoon of chamber music at the 92nd Street Y. 

Katya Apekisheva and friends made a persuasive case for Hummel's Piano Quintet to be heard as a transitional grand romantic concerto deserving of belonging in such august company.

Birthday concerts are strange things. If a hall is going to celebrate your birthday, you'd want to be in the audience and have some of your favourite musicians entertain you.