Bravo! Vail Music Festival: New York Philharmonic String Quartet

"This ensemble is joined by Bravo! Vail’s artistic director for Schumann’s groundbreaking piano quintet, which combined the forces of piano with string quartet for the first time, pioneering a new genre of chamber music 'suspended between private and public spheres.' Mendelssohn’s early work pays homage to Beethoven’s own groundbreaking late string quartets."

MENDELSSOHN: String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 13
SCHUMANN: Piano Quintet in E-flat major, Op. 44

With Frank Huang, violin, Sheryl Staples, violin, Cynthia Phelps, viola, Carter Brey, cello and Anne-Marie McDermott, piano.