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Jukka-Pekka Saraste conducts Mozart and Shostakovich

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Sun, Oct 22, 2023, 17:00
There are some instruments that are particularly good at touching the innermost – among them is the clarinet. As early as 1784, a journalist raved: »Whoever plays the clarinet soulfully seems to declare his love to the whole world, to the heavenly beings themselves«. Mozart had quickly understood that gripping music was possible with the then newly invented woodwind instrument – and so in 1791, shortly before his untimely death, he composed his famous Clarinet Concerto. Especially in the Adagio,... Read full text

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Musicians

Jukka-Pekka SarasteConductor
Christoph MüllerClarinet

Program

»Hit & Run« for OrchestraSauli Zinovjev
Konzert für Klarinette und Orchester A-Dur KV 622Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphonie Nr. 8 in c-Moll op. 65Dmitri Shostakovich
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