Tag: clarinet

  • PROGRAM NOTES: RAPHAËL SÉVÈRE & PAUL MONTAG

    PROGRAM NOTES: RAPHAËL SÉVÈRE & PAUL MONTAG

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    Alexander Borodin Sonata for Cello and Piano in B Minor (adapted for clarinet & piano by Raphaël Sévère) The role of the noisy neighbour in music history is an unjustly neglected theme for research but well worth considering in the case of Alexander Borodin’s Sonata for Cello & Piano in B minor (c.1860). Deeply imprinted…

  • PROGRAM NOTES: BRAHMS FESTIVAL

    PROGRAM NOTES: BRAHMS FESTIVAL

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    CONCERT #1 Johannes Brahms String Quartet in C minor, Op. 51, No. 1 If there was one great figure in European music that Brahms revered more than any other, that figure was Ludwig van Beethoven. With the Great Master’s bust looking impassively down on him from the wall of his Vienna apartment, feeling behind him…