The clarinet is one of the most versatile orchestral instruments. Its sound cannot be described with just one attribute - the spectrum ranges from soft, warm tones in the low register to piercing, shrill tones in the high register. A whole series of composers have created wonderful works for this "character actress" among instruments. Sebastian Manz, international soloist, chamber musician and principal clarinettist with the SWR Symphony Orchestra, will be bringing two of these to Chemnitz: the Clarinet Concerto, which Aaron Copland wrote for Benny Goodman in 1948, and the Concerto for Clarinet and Jazz Orchestra by Artie Shaw, who played the Production himself in the turbulent 1940 musical film Swing Romance .
These two pieces are framed by the enchanting Trittico Botticelliano, in which the Italian Ottorino Respighi turned three paintings by the Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli into music in 1927, as well as the Second Symphony by Johannes Brahms, about which his friend, the doctor Theodor Billroth, wrote: "It's all blue sky, trickling springs, sunshine and cool green shade!"
