Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center - 1891: Brahms's Clarinet Quintet

Before his death in 1897, Johannes Brahms memorialized his cherished, fast-disappearing Old World in works of breathtaking tenderness and profundity. Moved by the serene purity of the clarinet, he created a quintet for the ages, a heart-rending epitaph for himself and the 19th century combined. Schubert’s similar Fantasie, composed in the autumn of his life, and Schumann’s emotional Dichterliebe build a nostalgic musical path to Brahms’s late masterpiece.

Artists: Paul Appleby, tenor; Ken Noda, piano; Wu Han, piano; Aaron Boyd, violin; Francisco Fullana, violin; Yura Lee, violin/viola; Keith Robinson, cello; David Shifrin, clarinet

F. Schubert -Fantasie in F minor for Piano, Four Hands, D. 940, Op. 103 (1828); R. Schumann - Dichterliebe for Voice and Piano, Op. 48 (1840); J. Brahms - Quintet in B minor for Clarinet, Two Violins, Viola, and Cello, Op. 115 (1891)

Alice Tully Hall

New York City, NY