Soloist Sara Adams, who debuts in a featured Stars and Stripes role this Saturday, shares her Pick of the Week: Balanchine’s sweeping ballet Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet. “I believe that Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet is one of the most beautiful romantic ballets," she says. "There are four sections and in each one you are immersed in a world that is filled with the most beautiful music. Even though the ballet has no story, it is easy to be taken on a journey. The costumes are also extremely beautiful a

"In talking about music that is good for dancing, I have often said that most string quartets are not suitable" — and so Balanchine felt about Brahms’s Piano Quartet in G Minor, Opus 25, until he was told of Schoenberg’s orchestration. With a cast of over 50 dancers, elegant costumes designed by the great Karinska, and a Rondo featuring beribboned tambourines, Balanchine’s Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet returns alongside two works from Resident Choreographer Justin Peck: In Creases and Belles-Lettres

On Wednesday, Ask la Cour debuted in lavender tails alongside Lauren Lovette in the dramatic pas de deux of the second movement of Balanchine’s Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet. Just three more chances to see the elegant yet playful ballet, FEB 8 eve, 11, & 13: nycballet.com/balanchinepeck | New York City Ballet

Brahms. Piano quartet no. 1 in G minor, op 25; arr. Schoenberg (Dohnányi/Cleveland/live, 1989)