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Chamber Series: Magnus Johnston Directs

Name: Chamber Series: Magnus Johnston Directs
Start: 2023-10-07T13:00:00
Location: Hallé St Peter's

The Hallé

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Guest violinist Magnus Johnston, newly-appointed leader of the Royal Opera House, joins Hallé players for two of the greatest string sextets. The sextet which opens Richard Strauss’s last opera, Capriccio, becomes the subject of the drama – which is greater, poetry or music? This warm, flowing music definitely makes a good case for the supremacy of the latter. The warmth continues in Brahms’s G major sextet, described by musicologist Donald Tovey...

Program

Richard Strauss - Capriccio

Composer

Johannes Brahms - String Sextet No. 2

Composer

Participants

Magnus Johnston

Violin

Zoe Colman

Violin

Martin Schäfer

Viola