CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL 2026

Although the term “Romanticism” is often associated in our minds with a specific historical period—the nineteenth century—and a particular style of musical writing, the desire of composers to express emotions with intensity and vividness has always been, both before and after the nineteenth century, one of the principal aims of Music, if not its foremost one.

The program of this concert therefore offers a magnificent panorama of different forms of lyricism: the classical, graceful and unexaggerated lyricism of Mendelssohn; the passionate and spiritually ecstatic lyricism of Liszt; and the playful, piquant and extroverted lyricism of the great twentieth-century Czech modernist Bohuslav Martinů. Common to all three works are the emotional power, sincerity and radiance of their musical vision.