Music with words unsung and unspoken: Boston Symphony chamber music at the Tanglewood Learning Institute

Performed by Lucia Lim and Elita Kang, violins; Rebecca Gutter and Danny Kim, violas; and Johan Ellsworth and Owen Young, cellos, Linde Center for Music and Learning, Oct. 18, 2026 Program: Antonín Dvořák — “Four Cypresses,” Op. 25 Libby Larsen — “Sorrow Song and Jubilee” (2014) Johannes Brahms — String Sextet No. 2 in G, Op. 36 For the second time in less than three months, Tanglewood audiences got a chance to hear Brahms’ great Sextet No. 2 in G Major. The first time was during the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) concert on August 7 in Tanglewood’s Koussevitzky Music Shed, when about 50 string players performed an arrangement for string orchestra by Swedish composer Kurt Atterberg, part of a program designed by Yo-Yo Ma that also included Brahms’ Double Concerto. Then, Sunday, October 18, the original, one-on-a-part version was heard at the Linde Center, performed by six BSO string players, many of whom have become regulars at these concerts.

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