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Mini-Chamber 4 with pianist Hsing-ay Hsu and BCO members
By Peter Alexander April 2 at 11 a.m.
The Boulder Chamber Orchestra (BCO) will current their 2023-24 artist in residence, pianist Hsing-ay Hsu, performing with members of the orchestra on a mini-chamber live performance Saturday (8 p.m. April 6; particulars beneath).
The efficiency, titled “Blended Timbres,” would be the fourth and ultimate mini-chamber live performance of the 2023-24 season. This system options works for piano with clarinet and cello, with cellist Chas Bernard and clarinetist Kellan Toohey from the orchestra.
Beethoven’s Op. 11 is the earliest work on this system, and one of many earliest works for the mixture of piano, clarinet and cello. It’s generally often known as the “Gassenhauer Trio,” taken from the recognition of the theme that Beethoven makes use of for variations within the ultimate motion. In Vienna, a Gassenhauer (from Gasse, an alleyway) referred to a easy track that was so common that it was heard throughout city.
The theme Beethoven used was taken from a preferred music theater work, L’amor marinaro (Seafaring love) by Joseph Weigl. The identical tune was used for variations by a number of different composers, together with Paganini and Johann Nepomuk Hummel.
Brahms’s Trio op. 114 is certainly one of 4 chamber works the composer wrote for clarinet within the final decade of his life. All have been written for the clarinetist Richard Mühlfeld, whose taking part in impressed Brahms to renew composing after he had deliberate to cease writing new items. Brahms’s admiration for Mühlfeld’s taking part in was mirrored within the remark of one of many composer’s buddies who wrote that within the Trio, “it’s as if the devices have been in love with one another.”
Just like the Trio of Brahms, Fauré’s D minor Trio was certainly one of his final compositions. Though Fauré initially deliberate the Trio for piano, clarinet and cello, it was revealed as a conventional piano trio, with violin instead of the clarinet. In that kind it was premiered in 1922 by the main piano trio of the time, that of Alfred Cortot, Jacques Thibaud and Pablo Casals. The BCO Mini-Chamber efficiency of the primary motion restores the instrumentation that Fauré first imagined for the trio.
Emily Rutherford’s “Morning Dance” for piano, clarinet and cello was commissioned by BCO clarinetist Kellan Toohey in 2017. A local of Colorado, Rutherford is a graduate of Westmont Faculty in Santa Barbara, Calif., and the Longy College of Music in Los Angeles. Her works have been carried out in California and by Denver’s Stratus Chamber Orchestra.
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“Blended Timbres,” BCO Mini-Chamber 4
Hsing-ay Hsu, piano, Chas Bernard, cello, and Kellan Toohey, clarinet
- Faure: Trio in D minor, I. Allegro ma non troppo
- Beethoven: Trio in B-flat for piano, clarinet and cello, op. 11
- Brahms: Trio in A minor for piano, clarinet and cello op. 114
- Emily Rutherford: “Morning Dance” (2017)
8 p.m. Saturday, April 6
Boulder Seventh-Day Adventist Church, 345 Mapleton Ave.
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