Come with us to Tabaret Hall in Ottawa to enjoy the passionate and uplifting music of Frank Bridge, Francis Poulenc and Johannes Brahms. Frank Bridge, the composition teacher of Benjamin Britten, wrote this Cello Sonata just before the First World War, at a time of tumult and great concern in Europe. Poulenc’s Clarinet Sonata heralds from 1962, a much more sunny period in that century. Brahms's A major Piano Quartet was premiered by Brahms at the piano exactly 100 years earlier and includes trademark references to Clara Schumann, the lady whom many have described as Brahms’s muse. It is a masterful work that moves frequently from angst and yearning to brightness and inspiration.