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On this episode of Encore Houston, the St. Cecilia Chamber Music Society performs three “Rare and Wonderful Octets” from their concert in November of last year. The program begins with an early 1920s work that Shostakovich considered his foray into becoming a more modernist composer. Following that, a piece by Max Bruch from the same time period that is decidedly not modernist, with more of a lean towards nineteenth century romanticism. The concert concludes with Felix Mendelssohn’s octet that, despite being a chamber piece, he conceived of having an almost symphonic quality.
- DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH, Prelude, Op. 11
- MAX BRUCH, Octet
- FELIX MENDELSSOHN, Octet in E-flat major
- Performance date: 11/15/2016
- Originally aired: 4/1/2016
