Hugo Ticciati violin, director; Christoffer Sundqvist clarinet; Sascha Bota viola; Elsa Bradley percussion; O/Modernt Chamber Orchestra

O/Modernt portrays the anguished pleasures and pains of love in a concert that opens with Lera Auerbach’s instrumental dialogue, Sogno di Stabat Mater (I Dream of Stabat Mater), reflecting on the inextinguishable torments of the grieving mother. Osvaldo Golijov’s Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind is a clarinet quintet that evokes the spiritual, historical, and linguistic breadth of Jewish heritage. After the interval O/Modernt presents two seminal musical meditations on love: Janáček’s ‘Intimate Letters’, a quartet expressing the composer’s feelings for a married woman 38 years his junior, and the glorious longing of Mahler’s Adagietto from his Symphony No. 5.