Kobi Malkin, violin
Wenting Kang, viola
Michal Korman, cello
Tibi Cziger, clarinet
Assaff Weisman, piano

MOZART/ANDRÉ – Clarinet Quartet in B-flat Major, K 317d
JÖRG WIDMANN – Once upon a time…
JOHANNES BRAHMS – Piano Quartet in C Minor, Op. 60

Eighteenth-century composer and publisher Johann Anton André – an esteemed contemporary of Mozart – offers a fresh perspective on one of the master’s violin and piano sonatas, reimagining it as a quartet for clarinet and strings. In a striking contrast, renowned German composer Jörg Widmann draws on the enchanted world of fairy tales and the romantic spirit of Robert Schumann in creating his phantasmagorical tour de force for viola, clarinet and piano, Once upon a time… The program concludes with Brahms’ powerful C Minor Piano Quartet, a deeply personal and passionate tribute to his lifelong muse and unattainable love, Clara Schumann.