Beyond Brahms explores the warm, richly blended sound world created when winds, strings, and piano come together. Brahms’s lyrical Clarinet Trio stands at the center of a program that reaches backward and forward through the Romantic tradition. Charles Koechlin’s compact Four Little Pieces offer delicacy, color, and conversational charm, while Ralph Vaughan Williams’s expansive Quintet in D major surrounds the ensemble with youthful lyricism and an English pastoral glow. Performed by five CPNJ musicians in an intimate setting, the concert reveals how later composers absorbed, transformed, and carried forward the expressive legacy associated with Brahms.