Brahms & Ravel

David Shifrin and the Verona Quartet perform Brahms’s Clarinet Quintet, one of the composer’s final works and one that’s often cited as his greatest piece of chamber music. The program also includes a gorgeous harp showpiece by Ravel—his Introduction and Allegro—and a new Festival-commissioned work for piano quartet by Elizabeth Ogonek, who, early in her acclaimed career, was one of the participants in the Festival’s first-ever Young Composers String Quartet Project. 

RAVEL Introduction and Allegro 

ELIZABETH OGONEK Garlands for Piano Quartet (Festival Commission, World Premiere) 

BRAHMS Clarinet Quintet in B Minor, Op. 115 

Orion Weiss, piano; Jennifer Frautschi, violin; Ida Kavafian, viola; Felix Fan, cello; Verona Quartet (Jonathan Ong, Dorothy Ro, violin; Abigail Rojansky, viola; Jonathan Dormand, cello); Grace Browning, harp; Bart Feller, flute; Laura Ardan, David Shifrin, clarinet 

Approximate length: 1 hour and 45 minutes