Music Matters: The German Romantic Clarinet

 James Campbell  &  Alix Reinhardt , clarinets

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Futaba Niekawa , 1886 Chickering concert grand

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The German Romantic Clarinet

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Fantasies, a Concert Piece, a Sonata, and a Grand Duo

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Schumann  Fantasiestücke, Op. 73

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von Weber  Grand Duo Concertant, Op. 48

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Mendelssohn  Konzertstück No. 1 for 2 clarinets & piano

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Brahms Clarinet sonata No. 2 in E♭

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Acclaimed clarinetists  James Campbell  and  Alix Reinhardt  – master and former student – will collaborate with insightful pianist  Futaba Niekawa  to elicit the luminous, songful soundscape of German Romantic works for clarinet... and clarinets. The 1886 Chickering concert grand, a piano contemporary with the second Brahms clarinet sonata, brings its own distinctive period voice to this engaging musical conversation. The concert duo by Mendelssohn unveils a once-familiar, now vanished world of virtuosic clarinet lyricism that enchanted mid-19th-century Europe, while von Weber's taxing, brilliant piece unleashes both fire and sinewy vocal line. Schumann's fantasies are familiar in a variety of instrumentations, of course, but we can count ourselves lucky to have this chance to hear the haunting clarinet version. Irresistible, no?

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This concert is generously sponsored by Christine McMasters

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The German Romantic Clarinet runs ca. 65' and is without an intermission.

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Advance tickets online only at LaGruaCenter.org

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