Cleveland Orchestra, Severance Hall, January 23, 1992
Soloists: | Cohen, Franklin (clarinet) |
- Other Performances:
- Cleveland, Severance Hall: January 24 and 25, 1992
- Programme:
- Webern: Passacaglia | Mozart: Clarinet Concerto | Bartók: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
In this subscription programme, the Cleveland Orchestra and Christoph von Dohnányi continued their pairing of two Austrian geniuses of refinement. Mozart’s last concerto was paired with Webern’s first acknowledged work, created and revised after lengthy study with his hero Schoenberg. Their subsequent Decca recordings won wide praise, not least from the doyen of Mozart studies, HC Robbins Landon, writing in BBC Music Magazine: ‘Placed after the “Linz” Symphony, the Webern Passacaglia Op. 1 comes as a 20th-century revelation… Dohnányi has gone to immense pains to get the texts of his Mozart correct.’