Schiff, Shiokawa, Imai, and Perényi play Brahms

Experience the emotional depth of Brahms’s profoundly tragic Piano Quartet No. 3, one of his most poignant creations, shaped over two decades of the composer’s life. Subtitled the “Werther Quartet”, likely alluding to Brahms’s turbulent love for Clara Schumann—mirroring the anguish of Goethe’s tragic hero—this quartet channels the composer’s personal suffering to evoke a dark, dramatic yet passionate character, embodied in its C minor key. Four world-class instrumentalists—pianist Andras Schiff, violinist Yuujo Shiokawa, violist Nobuko Imai, and cellist Miklós Perényi—give a deeply moving performance of this highly personal work.