It is a mark of the GNSO’s stature and artistry that we are able to attract soloists like Benjamin Adler, esteemed clarinettist in the New York Philharmonic, to perform Mozart’s radiant Clarinet Concerto. The clarinet was only incorporated into the orchestra relatively late in Mozart’s lifetime and he instantly fell in love with its rich and warm dulcet color, composing for it as often as possible in those precious last years.
Preceding this work is another brightly shining celestial body, Wagner’s Prelude to Lohengrin. So delicate and gossamer is its opening that if you breathe wrong the spell just might break. It is the inverse of Wagner’s brilliant bombast in Ride of the Valkyries; this is fragile beauty at its most pure.
Rounding out the program is Beethoven’s dance of life, his Seventh Symphony. From start to finish the music pulsates with vitality, driving forward with ecstatic rhythm and ending with volcanic energy.
All three pieces are connected through the key of A major, which gleams with glowing incandescence - hence the title, ‘Luminous Thread’.
Wagner: Lohengrin, Prelude to Act I
Mozart: Clarinet Concerto, soloist Benjamin Adler.
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7
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