“One of the most characterful cellists around” (The Times) and “one of the most admired pianists of his generation” (New York Times) come together for an afternoon of sweeping emotion and virtuosity. Cellist Alisa Weilerstein and pianist Inon Barnatan—longtime collaborators who have recorded three albums together—bring their shared musical insight to a program of passion and color, featuring Falla’s Suite populaire espagnole, several Shostakovich preludes, and sonatas by Chopin and Rachmaninoff. Celebrated for her consummate artistry, emotional investment, and rare interpretive depth, Alisa Weilerstein is one of the foremost cellists of our time. Dedicated to expanding the cello literature, she is celebrated not only for her authoritative live and recorded interpretations of the core repertoire, but also for bringing new works to life through a wealth of solo and concerto commissions. “Weilerstein’s cello is her id,” marvels the Los Angeles Times, “She and the cello seem simply to be one and the same,” Barnatan—who served as the inaugural Artist-in-Association of the New York Philharmonic from 2014-2017 and currently serves as the Music Director of La Jolla Music Society Summerfest—is equally celebrated as soloist, curator and collaborator. The Evening Standard proclaims Barnatan “a true poet of the keyboard: refined, searching, unfailingly communicative.” The in-demand soloist has performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, the BBC Proms with the BBC Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Chicago and Boston symphonies, and most major U.S. ensembles, as well as the Leipzig Gewandhaus, Zurich Tonhalle, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony, and the London, Hong Kong, and Royal Stockholm Philharmonics. Together, these longtime collaborators bring a shared musical language shaped by years of performing side by side, promising an afternoon of extraordinary nuance and imagination shaped by expressive insight and deep trust.

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