It’s an embarrassment of riches for chamber music enthusiasts on this week’s Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin, as the focus will be on the legendary Marlboro Music Festival.

Marlboro Music was established by Rudolf Serkin, Adolf Busch, Marcel Moyse and friends in Marlboro, VT, in 1951. From the start, Marlboro has offered a unique environment for the study and performance of the chamber music repertoire, with ideas and insights passed between veteran and up-and-coming musicians performing side by side in a relaxed atmosphere far removed from the pressures of daily life.

Marlboro has benefited from the indispensible mentorship of such luminaries as Pablo Casals, Felix Galimir, Mieczyslaw Horszowski, and Sándor Végh, among others, who have helped foster then-promising musicians such as Yo-Yo Ma, Paula Robison, Richard Stoltzman, and all four members of the Guarneri Quartet (well, five, if you count Peter Wiley). The tradition continues, and Marlboro musicians now fill out many of the world’s great chamber music and orchestral ensembles.

Bill McGlaughlin will celebrate this famed chamber music retreat in five installments, this Monday through Friday at 7:00 p.m. EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.

In the meantime, check out all this invaluable interview material with many Marlboro stalwarts, including its current directors, Mitsuko Uchida and Jonathan Biss:

https://exploringmusic.wfmt.com/discussion/

Enjoy a Marlboro double-whammy this Wednesday, as I’ll present “Music from Marlboro,” as always, at 6 p.m., followed by Bill’s third installment.

Marlboro School of Music and Festival: Official Page