Two Washington DC premieres, and two composers who were each other's closest musical company. Mieczysław Weinberg fled Poland ahead of the German invasion and lost his family in the camps; in Moscow he found in Shostakovich a friend who read every new score he wrote. The Clarinet Sonata, Op. 28, is Weinberg at his most singing and most haunted — lyricism with something unresolved beneath it.

Shostakovich's From Jewish Folk Poetry, Op. 79, followed in 1948. He kept it in a drawer for seven years. Its eleven songs move from lullabies and laments to a bitter, brilliant show of happiness, scored for three voices and piano — the trio the evening's title promises.

Featuring pianists Genadi Zagor and Martin Labazevitch, clarinetist Alexander Fiterstein, soprano Rachel Blaustein, mezzo-soprano Maya Lahyani, and tenor Viktor Antipenko.

Tickets: $70