Julian Rachlin
Boris Brovtsyn
Sarah McElravy
Matthew Lipman
Boris Andrianow
Raphaela Gromes

Chamber music featuring a star-studded line-up has long been a cherished tradition at HERBSTGOLD. On this occasion, Julian Rachlin brings together a outstanding group of soloists to perform works by Johannes Brahms and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Brahms’ String Sextet No. 2 is both an intimate and, in terms of compositional technique, particularly sophisticated counterpart to the orchestral Sextet No. 1, which was performed at the last edition of the festival. And Tchaikovsky’s no less exquisite Sextet in D minor has become famous as the ‘Souvenir de Florence’: whilst working on his opera *The Queen of Spades* in a Florentine hotel in 1889–90, the composer eventually recalled the striking nocturnal atmospheres of Florence once back home in Russia and transformed them into music: the world and solitude in harmonious balance.