Miami Lakes Congregational Church’s concert series continues on March 19 with a varied program featuring the Piano Quartet #1 in G minor by J. Brahms and songs by Lecuona.
The concert, which begins at 7:30 p.m., features an exciting work by the German composer, a 28-year-old Brahms wrote his ambitious Piano Quartet No 1 in G minor in 1861. It will be performed by the Miami Chamber Players.
The third composition in what would become an oeuvre of some 26 chamber music masterworks, the Quartet enjoys a fine reputation in no small part because of the vigorously effective Gypsy Rondo itself.
The finale is indeed a tour-de-force of rhythmic and melodic bravado where the sectional form of the Rondo serves as a brilliant vehicle for dynamic contrast of the very sort found in traditional Hungarian dances and Bartok’s rhapsodies.
The program also features soprano Raquel Rubi who will delight the audience with selected songs by Lecuona and other Cuban composers.
The Miami Chamber Players is a professional ensemble of rotating Miami-based award-winning musicians who get together to play the world’s best chamber music in intimate spaces.
Musicians for the Miami Lakes performance are Huifang Chen, violin; Viera Borisova, viola; Claudio Jaffe, cello, and Adolfo Vidal, piano.
Admission is free with a suggested donation of $15. There will be a reception with the artists after the concert.
Miami Lakes Congregational Church is located at 6701 Miami Lakeway South, across from Miami Lakes K-8 Center.