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Concerts from The Frick Collection
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For over sixty years, the series Concerts from The Frick Collection has delighted listeners with the finest in keyboard recitals, all manner of chamber groups, and groundbreaking early music ensembles. Many of the century's greatest artists have performed in the 175-seat music room at the Frick Collection, the former Upper East Side residence of industrialist Henry Clay Frick.
Many of these performances are New York debuts of nationally and internationally acclaimed musicians, helping them launch or further their careers. Since the 1940s, listeners have enjoyed performances of the highest caliber in broadcasts from the Frick Collection, and this tradition continues to flourish.
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Violinist Thomas Zehetmair
Monday, October 03, 2011
Austrian violinist, chamber musician and conductor Thomas Zehetmair appears regularly as a soloist with leading orchestras on all continents and he is particularly committed to performing contemporary music.
Zehetmair made his New York recital debut at The Frick Collection in 1989, and returned this past May to perform violin sonatas by Bach and Karl Amadeus Hartmann, as well as Bach’s Partita No. 2 in D minor.
Les Delices
Monday, September 26, 2011
Les Delices, the Cleveland ensemble that focuses on music of the French Baroque, made its New York debut earlier this year at the Frick Collection. Hear the group on this edition of Concerts from The Frick.
Kandinsky String Trio
Monday, September 19, 2011
On this week's concert from the Frick Collection, the Kandinsky String Trio perform works by Alessandro Rolla, Beethoven, Mozart and Ernst von Dohnányi.
John O’Conor
Monday, September 12, 2011
Irish pianist John O'Conor presents a selection of works by 19th-century Irish composer John Field. Also on the program are works by Beethoven, Schubert and Schumann.
Göran Söllscher
Monday, September 05, 2011
Swedish guitarist Göran Söllscher performs works by Bach, Dowland, Pärt and the Beatles' "Eleanor Rigby."
Diotima Quartet
Monday, August 29, 2011
Quatour Diotima, founded by graduates of the Paris and Lyon Conservatoires, wasawarded first prize at the FNAPEC Competition, Paris in 1999, and the Contemporary Music Prize at the London String Quartet Competition in 2000, in which year, at the invitation of ProQuartet, they began a two-year residency at the Centre Européen de Musique de Chambre, Fontainebleau.
