Kammermusik-Matinee

Brahms had tried various combinations until he found the right sonority for one of his greatest chamber music works with the piano quintet. Clara Schumann compared it to a «great tragic story», and for the conductor Hermann Levi, it reached a level that had not been achieved since Schubert's death. Speaking of Schubert: various themes in Brahms' quintet unmistakably refer to his style. Beethoven also responded to other works in his «Gassenhauer» trio: the composition received its title because it took up a popular theme from Joseph Weigl's opera «L'amor marinaro» in the third movement. And it is also easy to recognize Mozart's «Kegelstatt» trio as a model.