DACAMERA presents Brahms the Innovator with Parker String Quartet

Johannes Brahms Clarinet Quintet in B Minor, Op. 115String Sextet in G Major, Op. 36Parker Quartet (Daniel Chong, violin; Ken Hamao, violin; Jessica Bodner, viola; Kee-Hyun Kim, cello); Charles Neidich, clarinet; Dimitri Murrath, viola; Valentin Radutiu, cello. Following their electrifying performance last season, the Grammy Award-winning Parker Quartet returns with distinguished guest artists in a glorious program of Brahms’s chamber music. The early String Sextet – composed by the young Brahms as he sought to escape Beethoven’s shadow – soars with melody and inspiration. In his last years, Brahms fell in love with the clarinet, and we hear one of the most moving works in the chamber music repertoire: his Quintet for Clarinet and Strings, a heartfelt new look at a form Mozart mastered 100 years earlier. The Quartet is joined by clarinetist Charles Neidich, recognized worldwide as one of the most mesmerizing virtuosos on his instrument; award-winning German cellist Valentin Radutiu, praised by the Süddeutsche Zeitung as “one of the great cello talents of our time”; and Belgian-American violist Dimitri Murrath, winner of the prestigious Primrose International Viola Competition.