The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center is both a music organization and chamber ensemble consisting of about 35 core members who perform both large and small chamber works, while often collaborating with guest artists. The CMS is also involved in educational programs that offer family concerts, teen concert series, lectures, school-based events, and various other outreach endeavors. The CMS also offers a residency course for talented youth called Chamber Music Society Two, which provides a three-year training program to prospective members. The CMS is one of 11 resident organizations based at the Lincoln Center complex in New York City. Among the others are the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, the Metropolitan Opera, and Juilliard School of Music. The CMS schedule offers over 50 concerts and includes Baroque, fall, and winter festivals. In addition, the CMS makes annual national and international tours and has appeared on numerous recordings for such labels as Delos, Virgin Classics, and CMS Studio Recordings. The CMS regularly commissions works from some of the leading contemporary composers. Past commissions have included efforts by Bernstein, Barber, Menotti, Milhaud, Ginastera, Harbison, Corigliano, Bolcom, and many other major composers. It appears regularly on the PBS television series Live from Lincoln Center, on the radio series Performance Today, and on its own radio program Chamber Music Society, which typically presents concerts derived from the previous season.
At the suggestion of composer William Schuman, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center was founded in 1969 by pianist Charles Wadsworth, who then served as the CMS music director for two decades. The ensemble's first concert took place on September 11, 1969, at Alice Tully Hall.
Initially the CMS consisted of just nine core members, all of whom, however, were highly regarded string, wind, and keyboard players. The CMS quickly drew critical acclaim and among its first important recordings were a 1975 four-LP compilation on the Classics Record Library label that featured music by J.S. Bach, Haydn, Schumann, Moszkowski, Elliott Carter, and others, and a 1980 Musical Heritage Society LP of Mozart and Beethoven works.
Over Wadsworth's 20-year tenure, the CMS gradually expanded both in number and in educational and cultural projects. In 1989 cellist Fred Sherry succeeded Wadsworth. Sherry served until 1993, when clarinettist David Shifrin was appointed music director. With the 2003-2004 concert season the CMS inaugurated its radio show, initially offering 13 one-hour programs and later expanding to 26. In 2007 cellist David Finckel and pianist Wu Han were named co-music directors of CMS, succeeding Shifrin.
That same year CMS Studio Recordings, the ensemble's own recording label, was launched with the issuance of its first CD, Dvorák's Terzetto (Op. 74) and piano quartet (Op. 87), and Beethoven's Op. 16 Piano Quartet, in performances featuring Han and Finckel, as well as violinists Arnaud Sussman and Erin Keefe and violist Beth Guterman. The touring concert schedule for the 2011-2012 season was typical for the CMS, as it included 50 concert dates spread across the U.S., Canada, Columbia, U.K., Germany, and Denmark.
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Bach: The Brandenburg Concertos
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Classical - Released by CMS Live on Dec 5, 2010
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Odyssey: The Chamber Music Society in Greece
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Chamber Music - Released by CMS Live on Sep 3, 2019
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Amy Cheney Beach: Piano Quintet; Alan Louis Smith: Vignettes: Covered Wagon Woman
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Classical - Released by CMS Studio Recordings on Oct 1, 2008
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Poulenc: Complete Music for Wind Instruments and Piano
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Chamber Music - Released by Musical Heritage Society on May 8, 2020
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Elgar: Piano Quintet; Walton: Piano Quartet
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Classical - Released by CMS Studio Recordings on Nov 1, 2007
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Simple Gifts (Live)
Gilles Vonsattel, Arnaud Sussmann, Paul Neubauer, The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Wu Han
Chamber Music - Released by Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center on Sep 9, 2016
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Mozart: Divertimentos
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Classical - Released by Arabesque Recordings on Aug 11, 1993
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Beethoven, Dvorák: Piano Quartets; Dvorák: Terzetto
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Classical - Released by CMS Studio Recordings on Sep 1, 2007
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Live in Concert - Osian Ellis and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Osian Ellis, The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Chamber Music - Released by Musical Heritage Society on May 14, 2021
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Marita and Her Heart's Desire
Itzhak Perlman, The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Bruce Adolphe, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, André Previn, Michele Mariana
Classical - Released by Telarc on Nov 1, 1998
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Big In Japan
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by CMS on Jul 28, 2023
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Walton & Sitwell: Façade, Books I & II
Lynn Redgrave, The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Classical - Released by Arabesque Recordings on Oct 7, 1997
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Delta 5000
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Dance - Released by TJR plus on Dec 20, 2019
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Latino's Way
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
World - Released by CMS on Mar 1, 2024
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The Wizard
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Dance - Released by CMS on Oct 13, 2023
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Ambient Nights
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
International Pop - Released by CMS on Feb 25, 2024
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Más Veloz Que la Muerte
Rapper Master, The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Fat Cap
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by Rapper Master on Oct 19, 2023
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Memories
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Electronic - Released by Treacle Sweet Records on Apr 6, 2023
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Trancelation
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Dance - Released by Treacle Sweet Records on Feb 11, 2023
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The Tracerman
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Drum & Bass - Released by CMS on Mar 10, 2021
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Moments
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
International Pop - Released by CMS on Jul 26, 2023
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