Accordo to Play Christ Church Lutheran, 5/14

Minnesota-based chamber group Accordo is described as "some of the very best instrumentalists in the country, eager to share their love of classical and contemporary chamber music." This final of three concerts in their 2012 Winter/Spring Season will be performed at National Historic Landmark Christ Church Lutheran, one of the Twin Cities' great architectural treasures designed by the esteemed architect Eliel Saarinen and his son Eero Saarinen.

Accordo closes its third season with Brahms’ monumental Clarinet Quintet, one of three pieces he wrote at the end of his life for the brilliant young clarinetist Richard Muhlfeld (after he had decided to stop composing), and one of the most tragic, intimate, and heartrendingly beautiful pieces of music ever written. The Minnesota Orchestra’s brilliant Principal Clarinetist Burt Hara joins forces with Accordo to perform the Brahms, as well as the rarely heard Concerto a tre by film and radio composer Ingolf Dahl, given its premiere in 1947 by jazz legend Benny Goodman. Mozart’s hero Joseph Haydn earned his reputation as the ‘father of the string quartet’ with the Opus 20 quartets, and the haunting opening melody of the fifth quartet begins this rich and varied spring evening of chamber music.

Tickets are available at The Schubert Club.