1.15pm – St. Gregory’s Centre for Music
Canterbury Christ Church University
North Holmes Road
Canterbury, Kent
CT1 1QU
Clarinet: Dawid Jarzynski
Piano: Anna Czaicka
Marcel Chyrzyński Three Preludes for Clarinet - UK premiere
Karlheinz Stockhausen Der kleine Harlekin
Krzysztof Penderecki Three Miniatures for Clarinet and Piano
Witold Lutosławski Five Dance Preludes
Dawid Jarzynski Unilaterality for one player - UK premiere
Three ‘classics’ of contemporary clarinet repertoire are framed by two
UK premieres. Of his work Harlekin of 1975, Stockhausen wrote ‘Out of
the enchanted dream-messenger awake successively the playful
constructor, the enamoured lyric, the pedantic teacher, the roguish
joker, the passionate dancer and finally the exalted spinning spirit
with his bird cries.’ Lutoslawski’s Dance Preludes are full of vibrant
rhythms and roguish charm and Penderecki’s early and beguiling
miniatures of 1959, composed just before his international career took
off, reveal a Webernesque concise expressivity. Jarzynski’s own
Unilaterality is a tour-de-force of virtuosity. Dawid Jarzynski is a
prize-winning clarinettist and composer and Anna Czaicka is one of
Poland’s rising stars.
