Concert 6: Youth and Memory

These works span from 1853-1865, a period when Brahms withdrew from the public spotlight to focus on inward, deeply personal chamber writing. A journey through Brahms’s personal and emotional life - his Scherzo’s youthful fire and stormy passion tempered by loss(Horn Trio was written in memory of his mother) then transformed into luminous serenity in the sextet.

Johannes Brahms Scherzo in C minor, WoO2, from F-A-E Sonata for violin and piano Julian Rhee, violin; Henry Kramer, piano
Johannes Brahms Trio for Horn, Violin and Piano in E-flat Major, Op. 40 Eric Huckins, Horn; Julian Rhee, violin; Henry Kramer, piano
Intermission
Johannes Brahms String Sextet in G Major, Op.36
Zachary DePue, 1st violin; Julian Rhee, 2nd violin; Che-Hung Chen, 1st viola; Burchard Tang, 2nd viola; Yegor Dyachkov, 1st cello; Prisciall Lee, 2nd cello