Rossini & Brahms

Members of the Dover Quartet join other Festival artists in the youthfully exuberant, Classical-era Sonata a quattro No. 1, written by Rossini when he was 12 years old, and Brahms’s sweeping String Sextet in G Major. Between the two works, the Festival presents the US premiere of a commissioned quintet by Finnish composer Outi Tarkiainen, who Gramophone notes “[fuses] jazz and classical idioms” and “draws on her Lapland roots and on the mystery and melancholy of life in the north.” 

ROSSINI Sonata a quattro No. 1 in G Major
OUTI TARKIAINEN Sensory Flashbacks for Clarinet, Piano, and Strings (Festival Co-Commission, US Premiere)
BRAHMS String Sextet in G Major, Op. 36