LAKE LUZERNE — The Luzerne Chamber Players showcased music by Mozart, Franck and Paul Schoenfield during their next to last concert at the Luzerne Music Center on Monday night.

The featured artists were clarinetist Robyn Jones, violinists Tara-Louise Montour, Lenore McIntyre and Rico McNeela, violist Melinda Daetsch, cellists Troy Chang and Bert Phillips and pianist David Pasbrig.

The highlight of the concert was Schoenfield’s “Sparks of Glory,” a gripping work if there ever was one for violin, clarinet, cello, piano and narrator.

The speaker was Charles Peltz, a conductor best known locally as music director of the Glens Falls Symphony who has a long summertime association with the Luzerne Music Center.

Peltz has narrated other works at Luzerne in past summers and on this occasion he was at the very top of his game.

The work is in four movements, all related to the Jewish experience in the Holocaust, so needless to say it is not a cheery piece.

It evokes tragic images of the concentration camps through the words and emotions of the narrator as well as music which is eerie, wild and sometimes frantic.

The piece comes with blistering instrumental music — some abstract and some tonal and dance-like — and the passages were splendidly performed by Jones, McNeela, Phillis and Pasbrig.

The concert began with a somewhat disappointing performance of Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet in A major.

Jones’ lovely clarinet tone and her considerable technique were showcased nicely throughout, but from an ensemble standpoint there were some rough edges, particularly in the first movement which was marred by some intonation problems and technical scrambling on the part of the string players (Montour, Sanno, Daetsch and Phillips). The movement should be breezed through, but the playing here was too tentative for that.

The slow movement was much better, creamy smooth, in fact, and the playing was much more tightly knit the rest of the way through.

The finale, Franck’s F minor Quintet for piano and strings, was given a splendid reading by McNeela, McIntyre, Daetsch, Chang and Pasbrig.

The group played the opening of the first movement with intensity to spare and the grit carried nicely into the faster tempo which followed. McNeela, has a fine technique and wonderfully clean way of playing and the other musicians matched his style perfectly. The playing was robust and wonderfully dynamic in all of the right places.

Violinist Elizabeth Pitcairn will be the featured performer in the series last concert next Monday. The program will include music by Gershwin, Brahms, Amy Beach and Josef Suk.