June 2

In this program, pianist Juho Pohjonen contemplates Olivier Messiaen’s 1944 Le Baiser de l’enfant-Jésus (The Kiss of the Infant Jesus), a rapt, slow episode for solo piano that treats the “Theme of God” as a berceuse, or lullaby. The Dover Quartet’s cellist, Camden Shaw, enjoys the role of soloist as he inhabits the courtly, agreeable, and lush Cello Concerto in B-flat Major by the Italian, Classical-era composer, Luigi Boccherini. To conclude, violinist Jennifer Frautschi and pianist Shai Wosner play the intoxicating and wholly individual Sonata in C Major – music Bartók wrote in 1922 and which helped solidify his reputation as a composer of international stature.