Overview

The chamber music dream team of Joshua Bell, Steven Isserlis, and Jeremy Denk gives their first NYC performances in six years, performing two evenings of gorgeous music by Gabriel Fauré (second concert: Sat, Jul 12).

The concerts follow the trio’s rapturous performances of this music in sold-out concerts at London’s Wigmore Hall in November and the Aspen Music Festival last summer, and feature some of the most luminous chamber music to be experienced.

Bell and Denk open the first program with one of Fauré’s best-loved chamber works, the elegant and passionate A-Major Violin Sonata, with the artists performing in multiple configurations: trio, duo, solo, quartet, and culminating in the D-Minor Piano Quintet – a Fauré gem, and a treat for anyone who loves Brahms – in which they’re joined by acclaimed Fauré interpreters violinist Irène Duval and violist Blythe Teh Engstroem.

JOSHUA BELL, violin
STEVEN ISSERLIS, cello
JEREMY DENK, piano

IRÈNE DUVAL, violin
BLYTHE TEH ENGSTROEM, viola