Echoes hosted by the Four Seasons Chamber Music Festival

• Presented By ECU A. J. Fletcher Music Center
• Dates February 13, 2026
• Time 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM

The Cooperstown Quartet joins forces with pianist Robert McDonald in a concert featuring musical echoes. In his String Quartet No. 13 in A Minor, Franz Schubert repeatedly harkened back to his musical past, connecting this late work with quotations from several earlier compositions. The resulting quartet is hauntingly beautiful and filled to the brim with Schubert’s signature lyricism. The introspective Schubert is juxtaposed with the sheer ardor of César Franck’s Piano Quintet in F Minor, a work that features echoes not of other works but rather of itself. The beloved quintet, a startlingly passionate and intense work, is unified across its three movements by a theme, a then-novel innovation of which Franck was fond.