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Macdara Ó Seireadáin – clarinet
Gintaras Januševičius – piano
Programme:
Gabriel Grovlez – Lamento et Tarantelle
Saulius Šiaučiulis – Sonata for Saxophone and Organ (arranged for Clarinet and Piano)
Joan Trimble – The Pool Among the Rushes
Johannes Brahms – Sonata No 2 in E flat major, Op. 120, No. 2
Paquito D’Rivera – Contradanza – Vals Venezolano
Clarinettist Macdara Ó Seireadáin and Lithuanian pianist Gintaras Januševičius return to the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin as part of their international tour.
Opening with the Lamento et Tarantelle, a piece written by Gabriel Grovlez for the annual Paris Conservatoire clarinet competition, their programme also features works from their respective homelands – the pensive and thoughtful “The Pool Amongst the Rushes” by Joan Trimble, and a work by Saulius Šiaučiulis.
Commissioned by his friend and duo partner Petras Vyšniauskas, in this short sonata Saulius Šiaučiulis draws on a number of influences, most notably Keith Jarretts legendary Köln Concert for its last movement.
Similar influences are echoed in the last work by Paquito D’Rivera whose pieces are based on two South American folk dances.
These will be presented alongside Johannes Brahms’ magnificent second clarinet sonata. After retiring from composing, Brahms heard clarinettist Richard Mühlfeld perform and was inspired to take up his pen again. Written in 1894 and autumnal in character, it opens with a tender, melancholy look back at life. The trio movement echoes his late piano intermezzi, before closing with a set of dreamy, wistful variations. A seminal work by the master of late Romantic music.
