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Johannes Brahms, String Sextet No. 1 in B-flat Major, Op 18
- 1. Allegro ma non troppo
- 2. Andante ma moderato
- 3. Scherzo: Allegro molto
- 4. Poco allegretto e grazioso
Johannes Brahms, String Sextet No. 2 in G Major, Op. 36
- 1. Allegro non troppo
- 2. Scherzo - Allegro non troppo - Presto giocoso
- 3. Adagio
- 4. Poco allegro

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concert Isaac Stern, Cho-Liang Lin, Jaime Laredo, Michael Tree, Yo-Yo Ma, and Sharon Robinson rehearse and play Brahms's String Sextets No. 1 & 2 Recording Brahms, Part II

Recording Brahms, Part II

Isaac Stern, Cho-Liang Lin, Jaime Laredo, Michael Tree, Yo-Yo Ma, and Sharon Robinson rehearse and play Brahms's String Sextets No. 1 & 2 Recording Brahms, Part II

About

Isaac Stern, Cho-Liang Lin, Jaime Laredo, Michael Tree, Yo-Yo Ma, and Sharon Robinson... six musicians of international renown came together on stage in December 1989 to rehearse and perform Brahms’s two sextets. The works predate his quartets and quintets, with the first sextet being greeted with immediate success and earning the nickname “Spring Sextet”.

These are no longer the fantastical dreams of the North Sea’s gray and grim waves, but sweet reveries on the banks of the Elbe during a golden springtime. – Claude Rostand, on the Sextet No. 1.

Cast

Isaac Stern | Violinist
Cho-Liang Lin | Violinist
Jaime Laredo | Violist
Michael Tree | Violist
Yo-Yo Ma | Cellist
Sharon Robinson | Cellist

Program

Johannes Brahms, String Sextet No. 1 in B-flat Major, Op 18
- 1. Allegro ma non troppo
- 2. Andante ma moderato
- 3. Scherzo: Allegro molto
- 4. Poco allegretto e grazioso
Johannes Brahms, String Sextet No. 2 in G Major, Op. 36
- 1. Allegro non troppo
- 2. Scherzo - Allegro non troppo - Presto giocoso
- 3. Adagio
- 4. Poco allegro