When Breath Becomes Sound
Chamber Music for Voice, Woodwind and Brass

This concert focuses on the virtuosity of musicians who use their breath as the force to create music – voice, woodwind and brass.  Starting with the heat and energy of Poulenc’s Sextet for winds and piano, we include two works by Schumann – his beautiful song cycle “A Poet’s Love” written while he was yearning for his wife Clara, and his three romances for oboe & piano which he gave to her as a present.  The concert concludes with Brahms’ famous horn trio – perhaps the most significant piece of chamber music written for that instrument.

Programme

Poulenc Sextet for winds and piano, FP100
Emily Beynon, Gordon Hunt, Andrew Simon, Benjamin Moermond, Radovan Vlatković, Pei-Yao Wang

Schumann Dichterliebe (“A Poet’s Love”), Op. 48
Robin Tritschler, Pei-Yao Wang

Intermission

Schumann Three Romances for Oboe and Piano, Op. 94
Gordon Hunt, Gilles Vonsattel

Brahms Horn Trio in E-flat major, Op. 40
Arnaud Sussmann, Radovan Vlatkovic, Gilles Vonsattel

JC Cube, Tai Kwun

https://www.pphk.org/festival_event/when-breath-becomes-sound/