Schumann Trio

The Guarneri Quartet's founding violist, Michael Tree, formed the Schumann Trio with two of his favorite younger musicians, clarinetist Anthony McGill and pianist Anna Polonsky. With "ravishing tone and keenly refined phrasing" (Washington Post), they illuminate the unique character - warm, deep, intimate in range yet spacious in timbre - of the clarinet-viola-piano repertoire. This concert tempers the young Beethoven's panache with the autumnal wisdom of Bruch and Brahms. || PROGRAM: BEETHOVEN: Sonata for Horn and Piano in F Major, Op. 17 (arr. for viola by Schumann Trio), BRUCH: Romantic Pieces for Clarinet, Viola, and Piano, Op. 83, No. 5 & No. 7, BRAHMS: Sonata for Clarinet and Piano in F Minor, Op. 120, No. 1, BRAHMS: Clarinet Trio, Op. 114 (arr. for viola by Schumann Trio)