Brahms' Piano Quartet

Brahms' Piano Quartet
26 Mar 2016
7:30pm
Esplanade Concert Hall

Okko Kamu conducts Schoenberg’s orchestration of Brahms’ Piano Quartet, a work reminiscent of Beethoven’s music and containing some of Brahms’ most memorable melodies. The first half features the cheery Academic Festival Overture as well as the ebullient Second Horn Concerto by Richard Strauss, featuring the SSO’s Principal Horn, Han Chang Chou.

"A conductor of great energy and insight" – Classics Today

 

Featuring:

  1. Okko Kamu, conductor
  2. Han Chang Chou, horn

 

Programme:

  1. Brahms
    Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80
     
  2. R. Strauss
    Horn Concerto No. 2 in E-flat major, AV132
     
  3. Brahms orch. Schoenberg
    Piano Quartet in G minor, Op. 25 (43’)