Following her thrilling 2023 recital debut with pianist Julius Drake, Singaporean-British mezzo Fleur Barron returns to PCMS with the “fearless, yet probingly beautiful” (The Strad) Parker Quartet. Their collaboration includes the premiere of a new song cycle for string quartet and voice by Anthony Cheung (co-commissioned by PCMS), as well as arrangements of Brahms’s and Mahler’s songs, and John Luther Adams’s stunningly serene The Wind in High Places.
Brahms Im Herbst from Fünf Gesänge, Op. 104 (Arr. Parker Quartet)
J. L. Adams The Wind in High Places
Cheung New Work TBA Philadelphia Premiere/PCMS Co-Commission
Mahler Der Einsame im Herbst from Das Lied von der Erde (Arr. Cheung)
Brahms String Quartet in B-flat Major, Op. 67
