Works by Brahms, Strauss and Bach to be performed

The Zug Sinfonietta will be performing works by Brahms and Strauss at a concert in the Reformed Church in Baar this evening.
 
Johannes Brahms, who was born in Hamburg in 1833 and died in Vienna in 1897, wrote the piece to be played at tonioght's performance, Serenade No. 1, for a small orchestra but he destroyed this original version not long after writing it. However, Argentinian conductor Jorge Rotter has made it possible for this piece to be played after all, and the Zuger Sinfonietta will be doing just this tonight, under the directorship of Johannes Schlaefli.
 
Also to be played this evening is a piece very rarely performed, namely Suite Opus 4 by Richard Strauss. This work was chosen as this year marks the 150th anniversary of the composer's birth in Munich in 1864 (he died in Garmisch-Patenkirchen in Bavaria in 1949).
 
The concert begins at 7.30 pm at the church in Leihgasse.
 
On Sunday evening, Johann Sonnleitner and Stefan Müller will be playing works for two pianos by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). What makes this concert rather different is that they will be performing on two square pianos (the photograph shows an example), one made in Celle in 1835 and the other in Vienna in 1840, making for a particularly authentic rendering.
 
This concert takes place in the Reformed Church in Alpenstrasse in Zug at 5 pm on Sunday 2 November.