Brahms: Sonata for Clarinet and Piano No. 1 in F minor, Op. 120/1
Schönberg–Greissle: Wind Quintet, Op. 26 » 2. Anmutig und heiter, scherzando
Brahms: Sonata for Clarinet and Piano No. 2 in E-flat major, Op. 120/2
Lajos Rozmán (clarinet), László Borbély (piano)
Clarinettist Lajos Rozmán has won multiple Artisjus awards and was honored with Liszt Prize in 2007. He is an experimental performer who boldly ventures into other instrumental and vocal repertoires. His partner is pianist László Borbély, Junior Prima and Artisjus award-winning musician who currently teaches at the Liszt Academy. Their program is framed by Johannes Brahms’s late clarinet sonatas, written in 1894 and dedicated to the clarinettist Richard Mühlfeld. Mühlfeld’s playing moved Brahms so deeply that he broke out of writer’s block: in addition to the sonatas, we also owe the Clarinet Trio in A minor, Op. 114 and the Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115 to this encounter. Between the sonatas, the Scherzando movement from Arnold Schönberg’s Wind Quintet will be performed.The piece is one of the Austrian composer’s early dodecaphonic compositions, at which point Schönberg had already broken with the classical musical tradition in its harmonic language and structure.The movement will be heard in the transcription written by Felix Greissle, Schönberg’s student and son-in-law.
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Liszt Ferenc Memorial Museum and Research Centre