Louis Spohr
„Sechs deutsche Lieder“ für Sopran, Klarinette und Klavier op. 103

Intermission

Franz Schubert
„Der Hirt auf dem Felsen“ (Wilhelm Müller) für Sopran, Klarinette und Klavier op. 129, D 965

sowie Lieder und Kammermusik aus Romantik und Moderne

It was Johannes Brahms who first honoured the youngest member of the woodwind section as „Fräulein Klarinette“, for whom he wrote wonderful chamber music late in life. However, Franz Schubert and Louis Spohr had already tapped into the clarinet's feminine side before that, writing intimate duets for it and the soprano, to which only the piano, which was obligatory in the bourgeois salon, was allowed to join in with the harmony.

Our principal clarinettist Ralf Forster invites you into the Kleine Saal to indulge in the intimate house music atmosphere of a Schubertiade just before Christmas that reaches far beyond the composer's time.