Book your tickets for the first concerts of the 2025-26 Ashuelot Concerts season!

Experience an enchanting evening of live chamber music for piano and strings at the Bellows Falls Opera House in Bellows Falls, VT. Uncover three hidden gems of chamber music and follow the journey of this chain of stylistic influence from Schubert’s impact on phrasing in Romantic chamber music taken up by Brahms, who in turn influenced Dohnányi.

Dohnányi was a Hungarian composer, educated in Budapest, and Brahms was heavily influenced by Hungarian folk music. Vienna, where Schubert lived, was a cultural hub with strong links to Hungarian music and musicians. Schubert’s Adagio and Rondo Concertante in F really functions as a mini piano concerto, with the piano given the spotlight. Dohnányi’s Piano Quartet in F sharp minor and Brahms’s Piano Quartet in Cm are both prolific but at the same time stylistically contrasting works. They both feature the piano as well, as is reflected in their titles.

Music Program: Schubert - Adagio and Rondo Concertante in F, D.487 Dohnányi - Piano Quartet in F# minor Brahms - Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 51 Louisa Stonehill – Violin, Masumi Per Rostad – Viola, Thomas Mesa – Cello, & Nicholas Burns – Piano