The Concert No. 48
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Musicians (detail), Giorgio Vasari, ca. 1545

Podcast Program No. 48
The Chameleon Clarinet (44.5 MB)
Music for clarinet, piano, and strings performed by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

•Prokofiev: Overture on Hebrew Themes for clarinet, string quartet and piano, Op. 34
•Brahms: Quintet in B minor for clarinet and strings, Op. 115

The clarinet is a bit of a chameleon.  Equally at home as a woodwind section member in Mozart’s classical symphonies or playing solo in Gershwin’s famous glissando at the start of “Rhapsody in Blue,” the clarinet can switch settings with ease.  Even within a single piece, the differences in timbre—dusky at the bottom and piercingly bright at the top—can make a single clarinet seem like several different instruments. This week we’ll listen to a couple of different pieces that feature the clarinet, and all its many colors.
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