Hector Berlioz
Roméo et Juliette op. 17, from it:
Introduction - Love scene - Romeo alone. Festivities at the Capulets

Carl Maria von Weber
Clarinet Concerto No. 1 in F minor op. 73

Claude Debussy
Première Rhapsody for clarinet and piano

Maurice Ravel
Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 2 (Symphonic Fragments)

Sharon Kam, clarinet
Beethoven Orchester Bonn
Hossein Pishkar, conductor

19:15: Concert introduction with Tilmann Böttcher on Stage.

Two years ago, a young conductor thrilled orchestra and audience alike with a poetic programme and exciting conducting: now Hossein Pishkar is back with a programme that is at least as exciting. Two important orchestral works about two lovers form the programme: one work is a first highlight of the art of orchestration – excerpts from Hector Berlioz‘ Roméo et Juliette. Music about the theatre’s most famous tragic lovers. The second is one of the masterpieces of the early 20th century by Maurice Ravel, centred around the most beautiful happy love story of antiquity: Daphnis and Chloé, a pair of youthful, shy shepherds in love. And right in the middle of it all: The shooting star of Romantic music, the clarinet, personified on this evening by the wonderful Sharon Kam. The Israeli-born clarinettist plays works that are related to the above-mentioned works and were written 100 years apart: Carl Maria von Weber’s Clarinet Concerto No. 1 and Claude Debussy’s Première Rhapsodie.