Clarinet and Piano Recital – Baermann and Schumann

Tuesday 6th October 2020
7:30 pm

Programme notes for the recital are HERE

 

 

Venue: Haddo Arts YouTube Channel

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Tuesday evening at Haddo Arts Festival is traditionally an evening of words and music. This year, we welcomed young clarinettist Laura Smith and her accompanist, Colin Sinclair, from North East Scotland Music School who gave a short recital of music by composers who were contemporary with the poet, Lord Byron, to set the scene for our illustrated lecture on Lord Byron given by Elizabeth Merry.

Heinrich Baermann was the favoured clarinettist of Romantic composers such as Mendelssohn and Weber, but he was also a composer in his own right. Laura and Colin play the Adagio from his Quintet. They will follow this with Three Fantasy Pieces, composed by Robert Schumann in 1849, the same year in which he was composing music for Byron’s poem, Manfred.

NESMS, North East of Scotland Music School, is a charity that provides musical tuition up to Conservatoire standard by importing distinguished teachers to Aberdeen on a regular basis. The connections between Haddo House and the School are long-standing.

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