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 (first concert: Wed, Jul 9).

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.

Joined by acclaimed Fauré interpreters violinist Irène Duval and violist Blythe Teh Engstroem, the artists perform a selection of the composer’s most exquisite works in multiple configurations: quartet, duo, and solo. The concert’s first half closes with Bell, Duval, Teh Engstroem, and Isserlis performing Faure’s only string quartet and final work, the ethereal E-Minor String Quartet. The evening culminates with Fauré’s best-known chamber work, the sublime C-Minor Piano Quintet, performed by all.

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

IRÈNE DUVAL, violin
BLYTHE TEH ENGSTROEM, viola