PERFORMERS
- Emilie Anne Gendron, violin
- Josefina Urraca, piano
- Julia Yang, cello
- Matthew Cohen, viola
ABOUT THE CONCERT
Despite its slug, this entry's metadata identifies it as Johannes Brahms's Piano Quartet No. 3 in C minor, Op. 60—specifically the third movement, Andante. Brahms labored over the quartet across two decades, beginning it around 1855 amid personal turmoil and completing it only in 1875. The Andante, in E major, is among his most songful slow movements: the cello introduces a broad, aching melody that the piano and upper strings take up in warm dialogue, balancing lyrical tenderness with Brahms's characteristic structural rigor. Scored for piano, violin, viola, and cello, it is presented here by CreArtBox. Brahms, a titan of nineteenth-century German music, brought Classical discipline to Romantic expression across his symphonies, concertos, and chamber works.