Bridging the Eras
Enjoy Mozart’s Horn Quintet in E-flat Major, in which lyricism leads to a spirited close with a series of “hunting horn”-like fanfares. Be moved by Brahms’s intense, passionate and lyrical String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor. Delight in one of audiences’ all-time favorites, Schubert’s Piano Quintet in A Major, “The Trout,” written when he was 22. Schubert based the work partly on his song “Die Forelle” (“The Trout”) at the request of the patron who commissioned the work, and its melodies suggest a jumping trout and rippling water.