Brahms & Schoenberg: Sextets

This wonderful CD features two of the finest pieces of chamber music from two of Germany’s most iconic composers. Brahms’ second String Sextet is bittersweet in tone, particularly in its heartrending slow movement, but transforms into something genial and sunny. Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht, inspired by Richard Dehmel’s poem of the same name, charts the relationship of an unnamed man and woman, walking through a dark forest in moonlight, and ends in blissful transcendence.