BCM Spring, Bridgehampton Chamber Music’s spring series, welcomes the season of renewal with three lively Saturday evening programs featuring some of the best chamber musicians performing today.
The Danish String Quartet, one of today’s most exciting chamber ensembles, makes its BCM debut on April 5 with a concert featuring quartets by Shostakovich and Schubert.
The Danish String Quartet describes itself: “We are three Danes and one Norwegian cellist, making this a truly Scandinavian endeavor. Being relatively bearded, we are often compared to the Vikings. However, we are only pillaging the English coastline occasionally.” The group has been acclaimed worldwide for its inventive programming, startling clarity of ensemble, and ability to play as one.
“Spring’s Clarity” on April 26 evokes the freshness of spring with music for winds. Spring sparkles with a wide-ranging program that features works by William Grant Still, Eugene Aynsley Goosens, and Grażyna Bacewicz and finishes with Mendelssohn’s stunning Piano Trio in C minor.
Led by flutist and BCM Artistic Director Marya Martin, the series’ esteemed musicians also include James Austin Smith on oboe, Paul Huang on violin, Chad Hoopes on violin, Ettore Causa on viola, Clive Greensmith on cello, Saeunn Thorsteinsdottir on cello, Michael Stephen Brown on piano, and Shai Wosner on piano.
The series culminates on May 17 with a program spotlighting great piano quartets. It features Mahler’s only existing piece of instrumental chamber music, his Piano Quartet in A minor, and Brahms’s Piano Quartet in G minor, which concludes with the popular “Rondo alla Zingaresque.”
The three concerts will take place at 5 PM at BCM’s home venue, Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church. For more information, visit bcmf.org.