InnerChamber

It’s a question over which lovers of music still obsess: did they? While we may never know what happened behind closed doors, the letters between Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms reveal everything that we need to know about their intimacy. Woven between movements of their music, Marion Adler and Scott Wentworth present, in words penned over a lifetime, the story of love, plain and simple.

Program

Selected letters by Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms

Romance, Op. 22 by Clara Schumann

Piano Trio, Op. 17 in G minor by Clara Schumann

Piano Trio, Op. 101 in C minor by Johannes Brahms