Erika Raum and Marie Bérard, violins
Bryan Epperson, cello
David Louie, piano

Koerner Hall
The Royal Conservatory
Toronto
April 26, 2011

The ARC Ensemble perform the opening movement of Paul Ben-Haim's Clarinet Quintet at the Enav Center, Tel Aviv.

James Conlon, Honorary Chairman of the ARC Ensemble talks about the Music in Exile tour to Israel in March 2011.

Benjamin Bowman – violin, and David Louie – piano, perform Mendelssohn's D minor Sonata movement which survives in an incomplete manuscript in the Mendelssohn collection of the Berlin State LIbrary. The work was completed by David Louie and its score can be downloaded here.

The ARC Ensemble's much-praised video Honour Bound, The Exile of Adolf Busch – directed by James Murcoch and produced by Simon Wynberg and James Murdoch, funded by Bravo!Fact.

"An impressive group of musicians..."
– The Washington Post, Nov 2008
 
"Passion, polish and vitality."
– The New York Times, Nov 2008
 
"Sets the skin rippling at every turn, with its ear-tingling corporate intonation and magical phrasing..."
– The Strad, June 2008

"A message from a reader sent me back to the disc On the Threshold of Hope... Weinberg's 1944 Piano Quintet is as searingly eloquent as the big Shostakovich chamber works of the same period. Members of the Arc Ensemble play with fierce conviction..."
– Alex Ross, December 2007

"Recently I became entranced by a disk of the 1944 Piano Quintet, by the ARC Ensemble, and began to perceive the subtle ways in which Weinberg stands apart from his hero."
– Alex Ross, The New Yorker, September 2011

"Weinberg, a friend and follower of Shostakovich, died in partial obscurity in 1996, but his music is undergoing something of a revival… As a point of departure, I would recommend a superb disc of Weinberg's Clarinet Sonata, "Jewish Songs" and Piano Quintet, with members of the Arc Ensemble."
– Alex Ross, The New Yorker Blog, August 29, 2011