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Sarasota News Leader January 24, 2014 Page 122 in 2004, and it embarked on its first U.S. tour in 2006. "Fourteen years later, ECCO's interpretations of new and old works, coupled with passionate and joyous playing," continue to earn its members critical acclaim and an enthusiastic following at concerts and festivals worldwide, the release adds. 2013 by the Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival, the release notes. The program also will include Eric Satie's Gymnopédies No. 1, Judd Greenstein's 2006 composition Four on the Floor, Tristis est Anima Mea by Italian Renaissance composer Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa and Ravel's String Quartet in F Major. ECCO's Sarasota concert will take listeners on a musical voyage through time, beginning with Mozart's Divertimento in B Flat Major, K. 137 and then leaping into the 21st century with David Ludwig's Virtuosity: Five Micro-Concertos for String Orchestra, which was commissioned for the orchestra in The Great Performers Series season will continue on Feb. 19 with the historic St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Russia's oldest symphony orchestra. The Sarasota performance will be conducted by Nikolai Alexeev, and it will feature pianist Denis Kozhukhin, the release says. % "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart." — Helen Keller QUICK TIP Share stories by clicking the icon in the menubar and choosing to share via e-mail, post to Facebook or Twitter, or many other sharing options. FREE SUBSCRIPTION Don't have your own subscription to The Sarasota News Leader? Subscribe for FREE and receive a weekly notification when the latest issue is available online.