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A night inspired by Brahms's String Quintet in G!

Mon 26 Jan 26
19:30
Tickets £18 - £40 36 Wigmore St, London W1U 2BP O/Modernt return to Wigmore Hall on Monday 26 January for the second evening in their two year residency. Incorporated in the generous arch of the String Quintet in G, one of Brahms’s most cosmopolitan and optimistic compositions, are the strains of Viennese waltzes, Slavic melancholy and virtuoso Hungarian Romani music. This concert dives deeper into those worlds in a programme featuring works by Dvorák, Strauss, Kodály, Bartók and Ligeti. Brahms’s lifelong friend, the violinist Joseph Joachim, complained that, in order for it to be heard, the opening of the quintet needs three cellists. Joachim’s wish is fulfilled in Johannes Marmén’s arrangement for string orchestra, when our O/Modernt's three very own cellists take to the stage. The orchestral arrangement is particularly fitting for this piece, which grew from Brahms’s sketches for an unwritten fifth symphony... READ MORE>

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