NATIONAL CHAMBER ENSEMBLE - -“Mozart & Friends”

    The recent October concert by  the National Chamber Ensemble started and ended with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. In between were  pieces by  his “Friends”, Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Anton Hoffmeister. What a lovely evening  of chamber music featuring Leonid Sushansky, violinist and artistic director of NCE, pianist Kathryn Brake, Vasily Popov, cellist and playing the viola, Uri Wassertzug.  Among the concert pieces were Mozart’s Piano Trio in E Major K-542, Beethoven’s Piano Quartet in C Major, Op. 3, Hoffmeister’s  Duo for Violin and Viola, Op. 19 no. 2 and Mozart’s  most famous chamber music masterpiece, the Piano Quartet in G Minor. This is NCE’s ninth season and the next concert will be  their annual Holiday Concert  set for Saturday, December 12 at the Rosslyn Spectrum Theatre. Tickets are very reasonable and can be purchased through their website at www.NationalChamberEnsemble.org.