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

Magnus Johnston

Zoe Colman

Martin Schäfer

Victoria Stephenson

Nicholas Trygstad

Paul Grennan

The Hallé

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 as ‘one of his most ethereal works’. The silver-toned first movement is followed by a Scherzo, sometimes melancholy, sometimes playful. The third movement moves from drama to a radiant conclusion before the last movement scurries joyfully to an exciting close.

Chamber Series: Magnus Johnston Directs

Hallé St Peter's

Capriccio

String Sextet No. 2