Kramer’s Three Pairs was aptly ‘paired’ with Erik Satie’s bipolar Pieces in the Form of a Pear for piano four hands. Though Satie rejected traditional thematic development and the Romantic weightiness that it enabled, the simplicity, clarity and jocularity of his music mask a deeper seriousness and complexity. Both aspects were well represented in the performance by James Winn and Judith Lynn Stillman.

The concert closed with a well-paced and beautifully played account of Antonin Dvorak’s Piano Quartet in E-flat, Op. 87. The players were Judith Lynn Stillman, Stephanie Sant’Ambrogio, Fred Edelen and Dmitri Pogorelov.