Berg: Langsamer Satz

Bridge: Sextet

R. Strauss: Sextet from Capriccio

Schoenberg: Chamber Symphony #1 E Major Op. 9 (arr. Webern)

Richly textured chamber works from the pivotal period when Romanticism was giving way to modernity make up this intriguing and rewarding program. It presents the sunset glow of the string sextet that introduces Strauss’s final opera; the luxurious blend of Romanticism and Impressionism in Englishman Frank Bridge’s Sextet; Berg’s early, lush ‘Slow Movement;’ and the first of Schoenberg’s two innovative but still tonally rooted Chamber Symphonies, in an arrangement by his pupil, Anton Webern.