An extra ‘Encore Concert’ to celebrate the end of Lockdown, the Marryat Players’ 21st birthday and the finale of the Festival.

Raja Halder, Hyeyoon Park, Maria Włoszczowska violins
Jenny Lewisohn, Tetsuumi Nagata violas
Christian Elliott, Bartholomew LaFollette cellos
Benjamin Grosvenor piano

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.

Johannes Brahms
Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34

Composed for piano and string quartet in 1864, this piano quintet is regarded as the pinnacle of Brahms’s chamber music. Richly woven in the dark key of F minor, the music is anguished and at times tragic, but at the time it was first published in 1865 it was also described as ‘beautiful beyond words, a thing of great beauty, a masterpiece of chamber music’.

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