First Church in Jaffrey

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.

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 The Nicholas sisters and their mother in honor of Frieda Roessler Nicholas who immigrated from Germany in 1911.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

First Church in Jaffrey The Horszowski Trio have delivered the most exquisite performances every time they’ve appeared at EEC. This, their eleventh trip to New Hampshire, will be as eagerly awaited as ever. Program will include Leonard Bernstein: TrioScott Lindroth: “T120” (2021)Robert Schumann: Trio #1 in d minor Out of Doors: for this concert, weather permitting, […]

First Church in Jaffrey Jewish, Hungarian, and American folk influences pervade this wide-ranging program that features harp, clarinet, flute, strings, and piano. Ravel’s voluptuous Introduction and Allegro, along with music of Prokofiev, William Grant Still, and the Piano Quartet in G minor Op. 25 of Brahms. In partnership with the Sebago-Long Lake Festival & musicians. […]

First Church in Jaffrey David McCarroll, violin; Angela Park, cello; Emely Phelps, piano join EEC’s artistic directors to bring Ravel’s spectacular duo, a stunning but little-known work of American composer Marion Bauer, and the most expansive of the Brahms piano quartets, Op 26 in A major, Schubertian in its open-hearted lyricism. Out of Doors: for […]

First Church in Jaffrey Beethoven’s Septet, written in his early career, made him instantly famous in Vienna. Featuring six movements of symphonic string and wind sonorities, it will help us celebrate the arrival of high summer in grand fashion. Also on the program are a Trio for Flute, Bassoon and Piano by Gaetano Donizetti, composer […]

Pianist Mimi Solomon, violinist Nicholas DiEugenio, and cellist Raman Ramakrishnan & EEC directors Laura Gilbert and Jonathan Bagg present the Piano Quartet in C minor Op. 60 by Brahms, plus a new work by Scott Lindroth for flute and strings, commissioned by EEC this year titled “Souvenirs”. David K. Garner’s “The Sky Was Good for […]

“Beautiful to watch, like a family in lively conversation at the dinner table: anticipating, interrupting, changing subjects” – NY Times. The Catalyst Quartet presents Viennese music by Haydn and Webern, West Coast mavericks John Cage and Terry Riley, plus their “CQ Minute” birthday tributes commissioned from 10 of their favorite composers. A co-commission of Electric […]

(Canceled due to illness.) Distinguished Boston-based violinist (and EEC favorite) Gabby Diaz curates a concert that is especially meaningful and close to her own artistic viewpoint.