Chamber Series 4: To Wake the Dead

When & Where

  • Saturday, April 11, 2026, 7:30 PM
  • Sunday, April 12, 2026, 4 PM
First Church in Boston, 66 Marlborough Street

The runtime for this program is approximately 2 hours, 15 minutes.

 

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Program

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Souvenir d’un lieu cher for violin & piano, Op. 42
  • Herbert Howells, Rhapsodic Quintet for clarinet & strings, Op. 31 (1919)
  • Stephen Albert, To Wake the Dead: Six Sentimental Songs and an Interlude after Finnegans Wake for soprano, flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello & piano
  • Louis Vierne, Piano Quintet in c minor, Op. 42 (1917)

Tchaikovsky shares misty reflections of a dear place, and Howells contemplates an England, and a way of life, destroyed by the First World War. Vierne’s epic, late-Romantic treasure is a powerful and emotionally charged work conceived as a votive offering for his son who was killed in action. Stephen Albert adapts James Joyce’s nearly incomprehensible text – with its wordplay, dreamlike ambiguity, and half-remembered fragments – into a moving exploration of love, loss, and the cyclical nature of life itself.

"Its concerts are the slow food of local chamber music, events where sounds and sensibilities, rhapsody and reverie, old music and new, are balanced with care and a sense of individual voice."
— The Boston Globe
 
 

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