Wilton Candlelight Concerts presents Manhattan Chamber Players

Wilton Candlelight Concerts presents the Manhattan Chamber Players on Sunday, Dec. 4, at 4 p.m. in the Wilton Congregational Church, as part of its 75th Anniversary Season.

The musicians will perform Beethoven’s playful “Eyeglasses” duet for viola and cello, as well as Brahms’ Clarinet Quintet and violin duets by Bartok. In addition, the group will play String Trio by Gideon Klein. This trio was composed in 1944, while Klein was imprisoned in the Terezin prison camp and ghetto, and was completed shortly before his deportation to Auschwitz, where he died.

The Manhattan Chamber Players are a chamber music collective of New York-based musicians who share the common aim of performing the greatest works in the chamber repertoire at the highest level. Formed in 2015 by Artistic Director and violist Luke Fleming, MCP is comprised of an impressive roster of musicians who all come from the tradition of great music making at the Marlboro Music Festival, Steans Institute at Ravinia, Music@Menlo, Yellow Barn Chamber Music Festival and Perlman Music Program, and are former students of the Curtis Institute, Juilliard School, Colburn School, and the New England Conservatory.

MCP has been praised in Strings Magazine for “A fascinating program concept … It felt refreshingly like an auditory version of a vertical wine tasting.” The article applauded MCP for “an intensely wrought and burnished performance …Overall, I wished I could put them on repeat.”

At the core of MCP’s inspiration is its members’ joy in playing this richly varied repertoire with longtime friends and colleagues, with whom they have been performing since they were students.

The Dec. 4 concert is the second in Wilton Candlelight Concerts’ 2022/23 season. Tickets for this concert may be purchased on the Wilton Candlelight Concerts website, or at the door. Adult tickets are $30, seniors are $25, and students are free. Information about future concerts is available at the website or by phone at 203.417.7203.

Candlelight Concerts benefits the Wilton Library Association and the KEYS program, and happily accepts individual and corporate tax-deductible contributions. This series is in its 75th season.