DATE: Thursday, February 12
TIME: 7:30 PM
Program Runtime: Approximately 95 min with one intermission
Free Admission with RSVP! (Ticketing Link will open in January 2026)
The New York Classical Players (NYCP) invites listeners to Flushing Town Hall to enjoy a dialogue between lyricism and virtuosity in this sweeping program. Andrew Hsu’s Arabesques, written for solo viola and strings, receives its premiere with NYCP’s own violist En-Chi Cheng, illuminating a delicate interplay of motion and stillness. Acclaimed cellist Mark Kosower returns to NYCP to perform Tchaikovsky’s elegant “Variations on a Rococo Theme” and the brooding intensity of “Pezzo capriccioso, Op. 62.” The evening concludes with Wagner’s “Prelude and Liebestod” from Tristan und Isolde, heard in a chamber orchestra version crafted by Yoomi Paick that brings new intimacy to its sweeping drama.
Pictured (right to left): En-Chi Cheng, Mark Kosower, and Andrew Hsu
