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Portsmouth Chamber Music: Ensemble 360
Brahms’ Piano Quintet had a complex evolution; on the advice of the violinist Joseph Joachim the original string quintet was rearranged for piano duet, and it only finally became a piano quintet at the suggestion of Clara Schumann. In the words of one contemporary, the quintet is “beautiful beyond measure…a masterpiece of chamber music of a kind of which we have had no other example since 1828.” A compliment, indeed, to compare this magisterial work to Schubert's great Quintet! For Brahms’
Tickets: £17, £15 concessions available from the Portsmouth Guildhall: 0844 453 9028
Portsmouth Guildhall, Guildhall Square, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO1 2AB
Mon 30 Jan 2017
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