Brahms: Sonata Op.120 No.1 in F minor
Brahms: Intermezzi
Kurtág: Hommage à R. Schumann
Brahms: Sonata Op.120 No.2 in E flat

Llŷr Williams: piano; Maximiliano Martín: clarinet; Jane Atkins: viola

Brahms, in the autumn of his life, came close to giving up composing altogether. The love of three instruments in particular – viola, clarinet and piano – dispelled his gloom and continued to inspire him right into his last days. This concert celebrates those late works: theirs is a world of deep mellow harmonies, touching melody, sweeping musical argument spiked with bursts of pure dance and nostalgic echoes of the gypsy music that so inspired Brahms as a young man.

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