Pierrot’s Moon
Debussy Pierrot
Kowalski Sonnen Ende
Marx Pierrot Dandy
Schumann Carnival Op.9 No.2 Pierrot
Korngold Tanzlied des Pierrot
Rebecca Clarke Midsummer Moon
Debussy Cello Sonata
Schoenberg Pierrot Lunaire
Noche Americana
an evening of evocative music from, and inspired by, the Americas.
Our festival finale opens with one of Boccherini’s many string quintets (there are over a hundred!), a particularly vocal example which draws upon influences as diverse as Italian Opera and Spanish Fandango. We then draw together some of the threads of the 2024 Corbridge Festival, with Pierrot’s escapades graphically depicted by Thea Musgrave, and a final reminder of JP Joffre’s astonishing bandoneon playing in that classic of ‘Nuevo Tango’, Piazzolla’s ‘Libertango’. ‘I can’t tell you how moved I am by it, and powerfully gripped’ wrote Clara Schumann of Brahms’ Piano Quintet Op.34. Widely regarded as the jewel in the crown of Brahms’ chamber works, what better way to bring the 2024 Corbridge Chamber Music Festival to a rousing end?
Boccherini: String Quintet in D major G353 Thea Musgrave: Pierrot
Piazzolla: Libertango
Brahms: Piano Quintet in F minor, Op.34
Heinrich Marschner: Piano Trio no. 2 in G minor, op. 111
Mikhail Glinka: Trio Pathétique
Interval
Felix Mendelssohn: Song without Words
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Trio in E flat major, op. 70, no. 2
Domenico Scarlatti, arr. Dinu Lipatti: Sonatas
Samuel Barber: Summer Music, op. 31
Luciano Berio: Opus Number Zoo
Interval
Franz Danzi: Quintet in B flat major, op. 56, no. 1
Valerie Coleman: Umoja
Carl Nielsen: Wind Quintet, op. 43
Witold Lutoslawski: Dance Preludes
Pamela Harrison: Drifting Away for clarinet and piano
Johannes Brahms: Sonata in F minor, op. 120, no. 1
Interval
Eleanor Alberga: Duo from Dancing with the Shadow
Josef Holbrooke: Eilean Shona op.74 and selection from Mezzo-Tints, op. 55
Paquito D’Rivera: The Cape Cod Files
Max Bruch: 3 pieces from 8 Pieces for Clarinet, Viola and Piano, op. 83
György Kurtág: Hommage à Robert Schumann, op. 15d
Robert Schumann: Märchenbilder, op. 113
Interval
Rebecca Clarke: Prelude, Allegro and Pastorale
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Trio for Clarinet, Viola and Piano in E flat, K. 498, Kegelstatt
Robert Schumann: Adagio and Allegro, op. 70
Claude Debussy: Première Rhapsodie
Robert Schumann: Märchenerzählungen, op. 132
Claude Debussy:: Le Cathédral Egloutie
Thomas Adès:: Three Berceuses from ‘The Exterminating Angel’
Mark Simpson:: Nachtstück
Olivier Messiaen:: Appel Interstellaire for solo horn
Brahms Hungarian Dances. Book Four: Numbers 17 to 21
Sarah Jenkins New Work for clarinet and piano trio (world premiere)
Dohnanyi Sextet in C, Op.37