Featured Performers

• James Ehnes, violin
• Jonathan Vinocour, viola
• Raphael Bell, cello
• Inon Barnatan, piano

Program

• FAURÉ: Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 15
• FAURÉ: Piano Quartet No. 2 in G minor, Op. 45

Pre-concert lecture at 7pm by Suraj Partha

Artist replacement: As of 8/19/25, this quartet has replaced Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen on the Philharmonic Society's season.

Violinist James Ehnes is joined by pianist Inon Barnatan, violist Jonathan Vinocour, and cellist Raphael Bell for a captivating program of Gabriel Fauré’s two piano quartets. The youthful First Piano Quartet, full of intoxicating melodies, is paired with the impassioned and strikingly individual Second Quartet. Among his best-known chamber works, Fauré’s piano quartets are exquisitely crafted and ideal vehicles for these four superb artists and musical soulmates.

“The wondrous James Ehnes [is] a thinker of the violin as well as a supreme virtuoso of the instrument… an artist of the first order.”
—The Daily Telegraph

Inon Barnatan is praised for his “superior playing, in which penetrating musicianship, compelling interpretive insight, and elegant pianism achieve near perfect equilibrium.”
—BBC Music