Julian Rachlin (violin/viola) /members of Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

First amongst equals: Liverpool Philharmonic Artist in Residence Julian Rachlin has never made any secret of his passion for chamber music, and tonight he teams up – first on viola, then on violin – with five orchestra string players to play two of Brahms’s most big-hearted chamber works. This is the kind of music that string players simply love to play: come and listen in on a very special evening of music-making amongst friends.

'For this, a soloist such as Rachlin, who is unpretentious…one who sings and bubbles with enthusiasm on his Stradivarius, and who sometimes indulges but who underneath everything is still open to objectivity.' Leipziger Volkszeitung