Opera Ballet
5th Concert: “The Cookware Dances”
Performers: Ognjen Popović, clarinet; Urška Rošer, trumpet; and others
Alfredo Casella: Serenade for clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, violin and cello, Op. 46
Joaquín Turina Pérez: Piano Trio No. 2 in B minor, Op. 76
Bohuslav Martinů: La revue de cuisine for clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, violin, cello and piano, H. 161
Three ensembles, six instruments, and an evening scented with jazz, dance halls and Mediterranean fragrances. Casella’s Serenata – awarded the prestigious Coolidge Prize in 1927 – opens the programme with Italian clarity and light-hearted wit. Turina’s Second Piano Trio brings the passion of Spanish melody compressed into a concise classical form. Martinů’s La revue de cuisine, by contrast, is a musical comedy about the romantic intrigues of kitchen utensils – a ballet suite full of Parisian jazz and the dance rhythms of the restless 1920s.
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