Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival Presents: Festival Concert III

The Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival, which draws outstanding musicians from North America and abroad every September, celebrates its 25th season with a series of concerts from September 8 to 19, 2024.

Two classical music masterpieces for strings appear on today’s program: Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, an exhilarating conversation among violins, violas and cellos, with string bass and keyboard support; and Mendelssohn’s brilliant String Octet, a piece written by the precocious 16-year-old composer in 1825 that can stand alongside any mature work in the entire repertoire.

Also on the program: Pianist Benjamin Hochman, praised by The New York Times for the “stylistic insight, elegance and sparkle of [his] pianism,“ performs with cellist Raman Ramakrishnan in a lyrical and spirited cello sonata by Beethoven and gives the world premiere of Christopher Trapani’s Palermo Canons for solo piano.