Electric Earth Concerts
Great Music All Year Round for the Monadnock Region
Jonathan Bagg & Laura Gilbert, Artistic Directors
With “tautness, flair, and precision”, this New England-based group opens the season with two masterpieces: Brahms’ Opus 8 Trio in B major, and the E-flat piano quartet of Mozart, joined by Artistic Director Jonathan Bagg on viola.
Duke University’s Quartet in Residence brings Schubert’s Quartet in D minor, “Death and the Maiden” to EEC for the first time, and a seminal 20th century work by Béla Bartók, his 4th String Quartet. The program opens with Anthony Kelley’s Sidelines, a playful tribute to his more athletically inclined siblings.
A concert of unique music and instrumentation: Bartók’s Contrasts, written for jazz clarinetist Benny Goodman in 1938; George Crumb’s Eleven Echoes of Autumn (1966); Undine Smith Moore’s Afro-American Suite.
Winds are center-stage in this concert, a crescendo starting with Paul Ben-Haim’s intimate Chamber Music for flute & strings, moving to Mozart’s grand Quintet for winds and piano, and culminating in Erno von Dohnanyi’s passionate Sextet for winds, strings, and piano.
Verona Quartet's return to NH is celebrated at Peterborough’s spacious Town House, with Mozart’s Quartet in E-flat K.160, the String Quartet No. 4 of Grazyna Bacewicz, and Verdi’s sole work in the genre, the dramatic String Quartet in E minor.
César Franck’s monumental Piano Quintet anchors this program deep in the French Romantic era. The concert includes Beethoven’s athletic, classical Serenade for flute, violin, and viola and one of Bartók's most beloved works, the Romanian Folk Dances.
Ieva Jokubaviciute and David McCarroll (piano & violin) sweeten the afternoon at the traditional German “cake and coffee” hour with Brahms’ G-major Violin Sonata. Cake and Coffee included!Generously sponsored by […]
Mieczysław Weinberg has recently taken his place as a major voice in 20th-century Russian music. The spectacular Piano Quintet from 1945 shows the full range of his imagination. Also on the program: Debussy’s Six Épigraphes Antiques for flute and piano.
A virtuoso with Flamenco and Latin jazz roots whose music-making is full of surprises. Romero performs this solo concert in the glowing, air-conditioned acoustic of the Temple Congregational Church.
Schubert and Schumann at the piano, and in song This hybrid recital showcases the most characteristic and intimate works of these Romantic composers—their songs and short piano pieces. With Jesse […]
The illustrious Catalyst brings their restless musicianship and razor-sharp ensemble to a program at the spacious, gracious Jaffrey Center Meetinghouse.
The masterful ensemble brings the EEC season to a close in style, performing for the first time in the Park Theatre’s grand acoustic.
“Vibrant, intelligent, full of temperament” (New York Times). The Verona brings its big personality to EEC’s intimate setting.
A moving and magical program featuring composers from three different musical realms: Finnish, English, and German. Artistic directors Laura Gilbert and Jonathan Bagg join soprano Rebecca Farley and harpist Tomina Parvanova
Schubert's joyous “Trout" Quintet meets the dark, mystic world of Osvaldo Golijov’s Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind, a Klezmer-inspired classic of our time for clarinet and strings.
Three French composers come to life in the hands of pianist Mihae Lee and a band eight distinguished musicians; the first of two collaborations with the Sebago-Long Lake festival.
Two recent works for flute and strings occupy different sound worlds from the youthful sturm und drang of Beethoven's String Trio.
An afternoon idyll that begins with music and ends with sweets, coffee, and conversation—in a French accent! David McCarroll, violin, Angela Park, cello, Mimi Solomon, piano, and Jonathan Bagg, viola.
Jazz-flamenco guitarist Pascual and percussionist José Moreno present a concert of mostly original compositions, in styles ranging from the vibrantly rhythmic and virtuosic to melodic and soul stirring.
Musicians from the Sebago-Long Lake festival return for a second collaboration.
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