BEARE’S CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL 2025

Schubert String Quintet in C
R Strauss Sextet from Capriccio
Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht

Janine Jansen violin
Quatuor Ebène
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.

Dvořák Terzetto in C
Franck Piano Quintet in Fm
Enescu Octet

Janine Jansen violin
Quatuor Ebène
Ning Feng violin
Clara-Jumi Kang violin
Alexander Sitkovetsky violin
Amihai Grosz viola
Timothy Ridout viola
Kian Soltani cello
Daniel Blendulf cello
Sunwook Kim piano

An unmissable moment: a one-off chance to hear one of the greatest Octets of all time played by eight of the world’s most celebrated artists.

Expertly entwining intricate counterpoint with some of his most dramatic writing, Enescu likened his masterpiece to “an engineer launching his first suspension bridge over a river” – a careful balance of lyricism and ferocity, darkness and light.

To open, Ning Feng, Alexander Sitkovetsky and Amihai Grosz bring to life Dvořák’s spirited Terzetto, full of Bohemian character, before the Quatuor Ebène take to the stage with pianist Sunwook Kim for César Franck’s impassioned Piano Quintet.