Martin Fröst, clarinet
Roland Pöntinen, piano
A Little Night Music
Saturday, August 6, 2016 at 10:00 pm
Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse
Bartók (arr. Jonas Dominique): Romanian Folk Dances
Chopin: Mazurka in A minor, Op. 17, No. 4
Chopin: Mazurka in C-sharp minor, Op. 63, No. 3
Brahms (arr. Martin Fröst and Roland Pöntinen): Hungarian Dances
Falla (arr. Martin Fröst): Nana
Göran Fröst (arr. Martin Fröst and Roland Pöntinen): Klezmer Dances
As an encore, Mr. Fröst performed the Romanza (Très calme) from Poulenc’s Clarinet Sonata, FP 184.
Martin Fröst, clarinet
Roland Pöntinen, piano
Martin Fröst
clarinet
Roland Pöntinen
piano (Mostly Mozart debut)
“A kinetic player with a vivid interpretive imagination and a sharply focused, warm tone” (New York Times), Swedish clarinetist Martin Fröst’s agile, virtuosic playing has often drawn comparisons to a dancer. For this sparkling late Saturday night program, he indulges this reputation with his “perfectly matched compatriot” Roland Pöntinen (BBC Music Magazine) in a buoyant evening of rustic merriment.
This concert will be streamed live. Cameras will be present.
“In earlier times, the talent of Martin Fröst would have attracted suspicion. Like that of Paganini, whom contemporaries suspected to be in cahoots with the Devil…there is something approaching the supernatural about his command of his instrument.” —New York Times
“Fröst exhibited a virtuosity and a musicianship unsurpassed by any clarinetist—perhaps any instrumentalist—in my memory.” —New York Times
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