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• Fortas Chamber Music Concert: Emerson String Quartet Wed., Oct. 2, 2013, 7:30 PM


• Fortas Chamber Music Concert: Enso String Quartet Tue., Nov. 12, 2013, 7:30 PM

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2013-2014 Season

• Fortas Chamber Music Concert: Emerson String Quartet

  Wed., Oct. 2, 2013, 7:30 PM
  The Grammy-winning Emerson String Quartet returns with a program featuring the hauntingly tragic Mendelssohn F minor String Quartet, Britten's great last String Quartet, honoring his 100th birthday, and Beethoven's Third Razumovsky Quartet.

• Fortas Chamber Music Concert: Enso String Quartet

  Tue., Nov. 12, 2013, 7:30 PM
  Making their Fortas debut, Grammy-nominated, New York City-based Enso String Quartet plays a preview of their upcoming Naxos recording, String Quartets of the Great Opera Masters - Verdi, Puccini, and R. Strauss.

• Fortas Chamber Music Concert: Cantus: All is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914

  Thu., Dec. 5, 2013, 7:30 PM
  Last here in 2008 for the A Cappella festival, male choral ensemble Cantus returns with arrangements of carols and war-songs that recall the remarkable World War I Christmas Truce of 1914 between Allied Forces and German soldiers in no man's land.

• Fortas Chamber Music Concert: The Last Stand Quartet, with Special Guests: An Evening of Shakespeare in Words and Music

  Mon., Dec. 30, 2013, 7:30 PM
  An ensemble of NSO musicians, The Last Stand Quartet, is joined by actors Andre Braugher and Reiko Aylesworth for a special evening of sonnets, scenes, and music works by Byrd, Purcell, Beethoven, Walton, Britten, Mendelssohn, and Rorem.

• Fortas Chamber Music Concert: Takács Quartet: Bartók Quartets 1, 3, 5

  Tue., Jan. 21, 2014, 7:30 PM
  Following their March 2012 Fortas debut in The Music of Budapest, Prague, and Vienna, the Takács returns to perform a not-to-be-missed cycle of Bartók's string quartets, Nos. 1, 3, & 5 (Jan. 21) and Nos. 2, 4, & 6 (Jan. 22).

• Fortas Chamber Music Concert: Takács Quartet: Bartók Quartets 2, 4, 6

  Wed., Jan. 22, 2014, 7:30 PM
  Following their March 2012 Fortas debut in The Music of Budapest, Prague, and Vienna, the Takács returns to perform a not-to-be-missed cycle of Bartók's string quartets, Nos. 1, 3, & 5 (Jan. 21) and Nos. 2, 4, & 6 (Jan. 22).

• Fortas Chamber Music Concert: Matthias Goerne, baritone & Christoph Eschenbach, piano: Die schöne Müllerin

  Mon., Jan. 27, 2014, 7:30 PM
  Hailed for their performance of Schubert's Winterreise in March 2012 as part of The Music of Budapest, Prague, and Vienna, Goerne and Eschenbach come together again to perform Schubert's vivid song cycle Die schöne Müllerin.

• Fortas Chamber Music Concert: Time for Three

  Mon., Feb. 3, 2014, 7:30 PM
  The self-proclaimed world's first classically trained garage band, Time for Three makes its Fortas debut with a repertoire of music from Bach and Brahms to their own arrangements of The Beatles, Katy Perry, Kanye West, and Justin Timberlake.

• Fortas Chamber Music Concert: Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio

  Thu., Feb. 27, 2014, 7:30 PM
  The Kennedy Center's chamber ensemble-in-residence, the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio, makes its annual appearance with the DC premiere of André Previn's Trio No. 2, composed just last year, framed by works from Beethoven and Mendelssohn.

• Fortas Chamber Music Concert: The Nash Ensemble of London

  Tue., Apr. 1, 2014, 7:30 PM
  Last heard at the Kennedy Center as part of the 2009 CrossCurrents festival, The Nash Ensemble performs one of musical literature's timeless cornerstones, Brahms's Clarinet Quintet, on a program with works by Mozart, J. Strauss, and Schoenberg.

• Fortas Chamber Music Concert: Augustin Hadelich, Joyce Yang & Pablo Sáinz Villegas: Tango, Song, and Dance

  Mon., Apr. 21, 2014, 7:30 PM
  Acclaimed violinist Augustin Hadelich is joined by dazzling pianist Joyce Yang and dynamic guitarist Pablo Sáinz Villegas for a multimedia recital featuring works by Previn, Rodrigo, Falla, Piazzolla, Ginastera, Ysayë, and Villa-Lobos.

• Fortas Chamber Music Concert: Marc-André Hamelin with the Pacifica Quartet

  Tue., May 20, 2014, 7:30 PM
  Fresh and daring, the Pacifica Quartet makes its Fortas debut with Leo Ornstein's rhythmically engaging Piano Quintet with acclaimed pianist Marc-André Hamelin on a program that also features the infectiously joyous Dvorák Piano Quintet.

All programs are subject to change.