Work(s) by Anton Arensky New York Performances

At Alice Tully Hall, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center places chamber works by Anton Arensky in dialogue with music by Saint-Saëns. Arensky, a late‑19th‑century Russian composer and teacher in the Rimsky-Korsakov lineage, wrote with clear forms and a fondness for tight, singing lines. In New York, his chamber music has tended to live on the margins of the repertory rather than in its core, so each hearing acts as a quiet correction to the historical record. The writing can feel conservative beside his contemporaries, but its craft and restraint hold up under close listening.