Clarinet Concerto - Symphony Concert - ONPL Season

Conservatoire de Nantes, 4 Rue Gaëtan Rondeau

Symphonic concert honoring Domenico Cimarosa, an Italian contemporary of Mozart. His opera 'Il matrimonio segreto' entered legend for being fully encored at its premiere at the request of Emperor Leopold II. A child prodigy and pupil of the great pedagogue Nadia Boulanger, Jean Françaix composed a 'Clarinet Concerto' with sparkling humor. With playful turns, comic phrases and unusual meters, this work will be a real challenge for ONPL's solo clarinet Sabrina Moulaï. Then the youthful excitement of Beethoven who, at 29, dares to measure himself with his master Haydn in a First Symphony of asto…