July 14

This wide-ranging program brings together two very distinctive trios for horn, violin, and piano. Each expresses archetypal music from two very different yet important and idiosyncratic composers. In both pieces, we have exceptional performances from the Berlin Philharmonic’s principal horn, Stefan Dohr, the American violinist William Hagen, and the magnificent pianist Kirill Gerstein. Gerstein brings out the lyrical aspects in Ligeti’s singular trio, which the composer wrote in 1982 and intended as an Hommage à Brahms. Later, these dazzling collaborators perform Brahms’s wonderful 1865 horn trio, a pastoral, soothing work, which Brahms wrote after the death of his mother, and which provides grace for the living in a time of mourning.