This program will offer an opportunity to hear two rarely-performed chamber works by the teen-aged Schubert and Mahler along with Schumann’s exuberant and extraverted Piano Quartet in E-flat, Op. 47. Schubert’s String Trio in B-flat and Mahler’s Piano Quartet, both written in Vienna, are a microcosm of their later, large-scale masterpieces.

Mahler’s Piano Quartet, written when he was merely 16, was only rediscovered by his widow in the 1960s and is the only surviving glimpse into his chamber writing.

Schumann’s Piano Quartet, from Schumann’s so-called “year of chamber music” was written under the spell of the Viennese works of Beethoven and Haydn.