Fresh from their acclaimed Distinguished Debut recital at Carnegie Hall, Blake Pouliot and Henry Kramer bring a bold and emotionally charged program to Hammer Hall. The concert opens with Bao Zhi Yang’s Ambush on All Sides, a tour-de-force reinvention of the ancient Chinese poetry of battle. Derrick Skye’s the spark she left behind, dedicated to his late grandmother, has its roots in traditional Persian music. The program culminates in Prokofiev’s monumental Violin Sonata No. 1. Composed in the aftermath of war and written under the intense scrutiny of Stalinist Russia, the sonata moves between stillness and force.