Elliott Forrest co-hosts with David Finckel a weekly hour of performances from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. This week pianist Alessio Bax, the Escher String Quartet and others offer an evening of all-Russian music from Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky and Moussorgsky.
Program playlist:
Rachmaninov: Prelude Op. 32, No. 5
— Alessio Bax, piano.
Rachmaninov: Two Movements for String Quartet
— Escher String Quartet: Adam Barnett-Hart, Aaron Boyd, violin; Pierre Lapointe, viola; Dane Johansen, cello.
Mussorgsky: Hopak, tr. Rachmaninov
Alessio Bax, piano.
Tchaikovsky: Serenade in C major for Strings, Op. 48
— CMS string players, led by violinist Cho-Liang Lin.