Performance

Sextet in B-flat Major

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Johannes Brahms’s *Sextet in B-flat Major* expands chamber music into something symphonic in scale, built for six string voices that trade melody and inner argument with unusual density. At Bargemusic, violinist Mark Peskanov leads the Semplice Players in a program paired with Mozart, where close-range listening makes the piece’s shifting textures and structural logic easier to track. The sextet has no specific New York City premiere history widely documented, but it belongs to a long local tradition of Brahms heard in intimate rooms as a test of ensemble balance. One thing stands out: clarity matters here more than display.