East Neuk Festival - Opus 13 Meet Julian Bliss

Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet makes a superb finale to follow some delightful music by a Swedish-Hungarian and Romanian-Hungarian. Tarrodi’s Madárdal (Hungarian for ‘birdsong’) draws on folk music from both her ‘native’ countries in a sparkling and dancelike quartet. Julian Bliss has chosen to complement it with Olah’s short but spectacular Sonata for Clarinet Solo which takes inspiration from the exquisite sculpture of his fellow-Romanian Constantin Brâncuși, and is a proper tour-de-force for a musician as communicative and virtuosic as Bliss.

Andrea Tarrodi: Madárdal (Quartet No. 2) Tiberiu Olah: Sonata for Clarinet Solo Mozart: Clarinet Quintet in A, K.581

Julian Bliss, clarinet Opus 13