This arrangement offers exciting opportunities for more mature players.  A combination of juxtaposed and interlocking double-stops are used to maintain the sonorous depth of Brahms' original work.

A rousing concert closer, this work will challenge all sections with a wide range (every part shifts), running passage work, trills, and syncopated rhythms. The B section, a lyric waltz theme, shows off the

This string masterpiece rose in popularity after it was used in the film Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. The simple, elegant theme from Elizabethan church composer Thomas Tallis