Composed in 1947, Marinů’s Oboe Quartet is a brief, neo-classical charmer. Brahms’s Piano Quintet in F minor went through a series of transformation from string quintet to two-piano sonata before it reached its final form. It is a musical tour de force that the composer himself referred to as “a masterpiece of chamber music.”

Featured musicians: Peggy Pearson, oboe; Jennifer Frautschi and Yura Lee, violins; Marcus Thompson, viola; Raman Ramakrishnan, cello; Max Levinson, piano