Brahms’s C minor Piano Quartet had a tortured birth, with roots going back 20 years to his unresolved love for Clara Schumann. While that work is full of dark drama and uncertainty, Carlos Simon’s trio that opens the program is all about a calm inner peace. In between is a new BCM-commissioned work by Paul Moravec whose roots go back almost 20 years, to a work originally commissioned by Marya Martin called Nancye’s Song.
