Finn Caoile's graduate recital brings together three works from the German Romantic era, united by the artistic relationships of Johannes Brahms and the Mahlers. The program opens with Brahms's Trio in A Minor for Clarinet, Cello, and Piano, opus 114, performed with Chris Armeno on clarinet and Christian Garcia on cello. This is followed by Gustav Mahler's Kindertotenlieder song cycle, performed with Jawan Jenkins, baritone, and concludes with Fünf Lieder by Alma Mahler, performed with Elisabeth Rose Leone, mezzo-soprano. All works are accompanied by Finn Caoile on piano.

Brahms and Gustav Mahler were contemporaries in the same Viennese musical world, their relationship marked by complex mutual admiration across stylistic lines. Alma Schindler, a gifted composer in her own right and a figure deeply rooted in this same circle, studied composition with some of Vienna's most prominent musicians. The three works on this program emerge from this shared world and together reflect on the gravity of loss, mortality, and grief. Brahms composed his clarinet works in the shadow of his own anticipated death and the deaths of many of his closest friends. Mahler set Rückert's grief-stricken poems with an intimacy that would prove tragically prescient. And Alma's songs, composed at the turn of the century and suppressed for nearly a decade, were finally brought to light in 1910 when Gustav championed their publication in an attempt to repair their fractured marriage, ensuring that a compositional voice he had once silenced would not be lost entirely. That these songs survive at all makes them all the more remarkable.

We invite you to join us for an evening of beautiful and masterful music, and we hope that these extraordinary works resonate with you as deeply as they have with us.

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