Program
Johannes Brahms
String Quintet in G major
Arnold Schönberg
"Transfigured Night" for string sextet
This would be his last work, Johannes Brahms announced after he had completed his String Quintet op. 111. We know better today: he continued to write after all, and so his chamber music works for clarinet followed. But this quintet already harbours a sense of farewell, with passages full of melancholy and resignation. But Brahms would not be Brahms if there were not also traces of romantic cheerfulness in it. Schönberg's "Verklärter Nacht", probably his most popular and most frequently performed work, is also romantic and has nothing whatsoever to do with his later avant-garde music.
Johannes Brahms
String Quintet in G major
Arnold Schönberg
"Transfigured Night" for string sextet