NEPACMS is thrilled to present its most ambitious program yet, pairing the sublime Brahms Second Sextet, a masterpiece exuding elegance and rich lyricism, with Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir de Florence, a bright and vigorous composition for string sextet, reminiscent of his renowned ballets. Over several years, Tchaikovsky painstakingly sketched, worked on, and reworked Souvenir de Florence, and expressed that composing for a string sextet is “terribly difficult…it seems that rather than writing for six voices, I am, in essence, composing for the orchestra, and only then arranging it for six string instruments.” Indeed, these magnificent string sextets will fill the venue with resonances like an orchestra!
SATURDAY, January 13, 2024 at 2PM – First Presbyterian Church of Bloomsburg
345 Market Street, Bloomsburg, PA
PROGRAM
Brahms String Sextet No. 2 in G Major, Op. 36
Tchaikovsky Souvenir de Florence, Op.70
ARTISTS
John Vaida, violin
Ambroise Aubrun, violin
Amy Iwazumi, viola
Kristina Giles, viola
Erin Ellis, cello
Lisa Caravan, cello