Concerts

This is the third of three concerts in the Conversations series. The first concert, Conversations, features the Bruch Eight Pieces for Clarinet, Viola, and Piano. The second, Discussions, pairs the Saint-Saëns Sonata for Clarinet and Piano with the Poulenc Sonata for Clarinet and Piano.

Chamber music is, at its heart, a social art. Unlike the symphony or the concerto, it does not depend on large institutions or grand halls to come alive. It requires only a small number of players willing to listen to one another with genuine attention, and an audience willing to do the same. The word "chamber"...

This is the second of three concerts in the Conversations series. The first concert, Conversations, features the Bruch Eight Pieces for Clarinet, Viola, and Piano. The third, Dialogues, pairs the Draeseke Sonata for Clarinet and Piano with the Poulenc Sonata for Two Clarinets.

This series takes that idea seriously. Each of the three concerts presented here is built around a different kind of musical exchange: the intimate three-way conversation of the Bruch Eight Pieces, the dialogue across a century of musical change in the Draeseke and Poulenc, and the discussion between two traditions of French elegance in the Saint-Saëns and...

Three works bound by a singular act of recognition. Brahms’s autumnal Trio, written after a chance encounter with a clarinettist of extraordinary gifts, alongside two works he championed into existence; Frühling’s lyrical Trio, composed by a man Brahms called his equal yet history forgot, and Rabl’s radiant Quartet, the first piece its composer ever wrote, by a prodigy who, at thirty, simply chose to give up composition completely.

This is the first of three concerts in the Conversations series. The second concert, Discussions, pairs the Saint-Saëns Sonata for Clarinet and Piano with the Poulenc Sonata for Clarinet and Piano. The third, Dialogues, features the Draeseke Sonata for Clarinet and Piano and the Poulenc Sonata for Two Clarinets.

Chamber music is, at its heart, a social art. Unlike the symphony or the concerto, it does not depend on large institutions or grand halls to come alive. It requires only a small number of players willing to listen to one another with genuine attention, and an audience willing to do...