By Janelle Gelfand
The Cincinnati Enquirer

The Cincinnati Chamber Music Society will celebrate its 75th season in a big way next year.

Hot young German violinist Christian Tetzlaff, the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio and the Brentano String Quartet are some of the great names in chamber music that will highlight the society's 2004-05 season.

The society will present an expanded series of nine concerts (instead of five), including three "mini festivals" - rare offerings of back-to-back concerts exploring the chamber repertoire of Bartok, Beethoven and Bach. Concerts will be in three venues. Concert times are 7:30 p.m., except for the opening Sunday matinee.

• Tetzlaff will open the season at 4 p.m., Oct. 10 in Memorial Hall (note the change in venue from the usual Corbett Auditorium) with J.S. Bach's Violin Sonatas and Partitas. A buffet dinner, included in the ticket price, will be served at intermission. (Tetzlaff comes fresh from concerts with Paavo Jarvi and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.)

• The Society will host a Bartok Fest Jan. 11-12 in Corbett Auditorium, University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. The Colorado Quartet will perform all six Bartok String Quartets - the first time this has been done here since standing-room-only performances by the Tokyo Quartet in 1993 at CCM.

• In March 2005, violin virtuoso Jaime Laredo will join his colleagues, cellist (and wife) Sharon Robinson and pianist Joseph Kalichstein, for three consecutive evenings exploring Beethoven's complete Piano Trios in Werner Recital Hall (March 13-15).

Also scheduled: The St. Petersburg Quartet, formerly quartet-in-residence at the Oberlin Conservatory (Dec. 7) and the Claremont Trio (Feb. 8), both in Corbett Auditorium. The anniversary season ends April 19, 2005, with the Brentano Quartet in Werner Recital Hall.

Subscriptions: $180; single tickets, $30; $10 students, go on sale June 1. CCM students and children under 18 are free (except to opening concert). 381-1464 or www.cincychamber.org.

E-mail jgelfand@enquirer.com