Compassion runs as a theme throughout this concert,present in Schubert’s visionary response to Goethe’sGesänge des Harfners and in Richard RodneyBennett’s Tom O’Bedlam’s Song, works of searingexpressive power written for and dedicated to PeterPears. Schubert’s Second Piano Trio offers a gentlesummation of the composer’s compassionateengagement with life.