Early Inspirations

Open Concert Program

Four recent uOttawa graduates juxtapose contemporary piano quartets by Johannes Brahms and Robert Schumann from relatively early in their compositional maturity, presenting the complete Hungarian-inspired Brahms Piano Quartet No. 1 and the slow third movement of Schumann's Piano Quartet Op. 47, which would inspire Brahms' later chamber music.

Katerina Dimitrova, violin
Sarah Als, viola
Kay Chen, cello
Alexander Merpaw, piano

Program

Schumann: Piano Quartet, Op. 47 (movement 3, andante cantabile)
Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 1, Op. 25