O schöne Nacht
O schöne Nacht — beautiful night! A program of Romantic quartets exploring the sensual and mysterious possibilities of darkness: Brahms’s complete Op. 92, Op. 31 and Op. 112 quartet cycles, unusual quartets by his younger contemporary Heinrich von Herzogenberg — one of whose Notturnos, Op. 22 directly inspired Brahms’s O schöne Nacht — and, to close, Robert Schumann’s Spanish-inflected Zigeunerleben.
Katharine Dain, soprano · Marine Fribourg, mezzo-soprano · Guy Cutting, tenor · Drew Santini, baritone · with Flore Merlin, piano.