For the final concert of the 2010 Bank of America Chamber Music Series at the Spoleto Festival USA, Geoff Nuttall breaks a Menotti tradition and surprises his audiences with the great Mendelssohn Octet for Strings.
Listen out for virtuosity this week as the Bank of America Spoleto Chamber Music Series features extremely difficult works from the geographical gamut of classical music: America, Western Europe, and Eastern Europe.
From another concert at the Dock Street Theatre in Charleston, South Carolina, Geoff Nuttall leads us through an evening of dance music.
This week we hear all Bavarian music direct from the Spoleto Festival USA in the Dock Street Theatre at the heart of Charleston, South Carolina.
Mozart's glorious Piano Quartet in E-flat and some musical stories told by Telemann and Schumann.
A flashy Brandenburg Concerto brings a baroque orchestra onto stage, then Beethoven for four, Haydn for three, and to end the show, Bach for solo piano.
Brahms gets new life - with a live performance of his Piano Quartet in G minor, and then a piano-roll recreation of a Hungarian Dance, with 4-hands worth of Brahms himself!
Daniel Phillips, Pedja Muzievic and Todd Palmer play Contrasts by Bela Bartok, Tara Helen O'Connor offers a Mozart Flute Quartet; plus a Stephen Prutsman song cycle performed by Dawn Upshaw.
Chamber Music director Geoff Nuttall joins to play one of his favorite pieces: the Faure Piano Quartet, and violinist Livia Sohn plays "Sink or Swim" by composer-in-residence Jonathan Berger.
Members of the St. Lawrence String Quartet take on Beethoven's Grosse Fuge, and Alisa Weilerstein plays in an Arensky quartet scored for violin, viola and two cellos.
It's the St. Lawrence String Quartet plus one, times two: Gumboots, a clarinet quintet with Todd Palmer soloing, and pianist Stephen Prutsman joins them for Dohnanyi's Opus 1.
Some unexpected repertoire along side the likes of Bach and Haydn: an arrangement of a song by the rock band "Yes" takes the stage of the Dock Street Theatre.
Violinist Geoff Nuttall begins his inaugural season as director of the Chamber Music Series at Spoleto Festival USA in the newly renovated Dock Street Theatre in the heart of old Charleston.

