| Tuesday 16 December 2025 | 19:30 |
| Schubert, Franz (1797-1828) | String Quintet in C major, D.956 | |
| Strauss, Richard (1864-1949) | Capriccio, Op.85: Sextet | |
| Schoenberg, Arnold (1874-1951) | Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night), Op.4 |
| Janine Jansen | Violin |
| Quatuor Ébène | |
| Ning Feng | Violin |
| Alexander Sitkovetsky | Violin |
| Amihai Grosz | Viola |
| Timothy Ridout | Viola |
| Kian Soltani | Cello |
| Daniel Blendulf | Cello |
Join eleven of the world’s leading musicians for an evening of achingly beautiful Romantic masterpieces.
Schubert’s sublime String Quintet in C – with its famous haunting Adagio – showcases the composer at his most inspired, while Strauss’ gorgeous Sextet from Capriccio is a love letter to music itself. His final opera follows a composer and a poet each vying for the love of a Countess, with the opening sextet imagined as a work written by the composer Flamand for his beloved.
Sensual and intimate, Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht is the composer’s best-loved work. Inspired by a poem following two lovers’ emotions through infidelity and forgiveness, Schoenberg weaves gorgeous Romantic melodies into what some consider the greatest sextet ever written.
