Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
String Quintet No. 4 in G minor, K. 516

Completed just before his father Leopold’s death in 1787, this string quintet is dark and melancholic in character, until the heartfelt anguish is dispelled at the end with a lilting and carefree finale. Written on a grand scale for string quartet with an additional viola, it allows Mozart to indulge his love of the instrument with the work’s emphasis on rich inner voices. This is one of Mozart’s finest pieces of chamber music.

Erich Wolfgang Korngold
String Sextet in D major, Op. 10

Korngold showed early prodigious talent and was even described at the time as ‘the greatest child prodigy since Mozart’. This late Romantic masterpiece was written on the eve of World War I when Korngold was just 17. With its bustling energy, sweeping melodies and dramatic shifts of mood and texture, it is one of the finest sextets in the canon.

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