Hastings Chamber Music Festival - Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht / Brahms Sextet No. 2 in G

7 - 9pm Oct 22nd Christ Church 
Felix Ensemble: Transfiguration

Felix Ensemble - lead by festival artistic director Jane Gordon

Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night)
Brahms Sextet No. 2 in G

The opening concert of this year’s Hastings Chamber Music Festival explores the idea of transfiguration - a theme that runs through both the music and the human stories behind it, inspired by Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht, or ‘Transfigured Night’.

Led by Artistic Director Jane Gordon, the Felix Ensemble brings together Schoenberg’s extraordinary sextet with Brahms’s radiant Sextet No. 2. Written almost forty years apart, these two great works reveal contrasting musical worlds, yet both explore profound emotional transformation. From Brahms’s warmth and lyricism to Schoenberg’s intense and richly coloured sound world, the programme moves between intimacy and intensity, darkness and light.

Felix Ensemble
Jane Gordon (violin)
Ellie Fagg (violin)
Lorena Canto (viola)
Gordon Cervoni (viola)
Thomas Carroll (cello)
Kirsten Jenson (cello)

The Felix Ensemble is a dynamic chamber group bringing together some of Europe’s most prestigious soloists and chamber musicians, the ensemble boasts players of exceptional calibre, regularly heard on BBC Radio 3 and performing in the world’s finest concert halls, including Wigmore Hall, Berlin Philharmonie, Vienna Konzerthaus, Carnegie Hall, and Glyndebourne Opera. The musicians perform on modern and period instruments. They hold principal positions in renowned orchestras such as the London Mozart Players, Aurora Orchestra, United Strings of Europe and Riot Ensemble, and are in high demand on the international stage, with busy touring and recording schedules across leading festivals and venues.