Penderecki String Quartet & Oskar Espina Ruiz, Clarinet

The Penderecki String Quartet, “an ensemble of formidable power and keen musical sensitivity” (Fanfare Magazine), and CMW artistic director, Oskar Espina Ruiz, clarinet, join forces to present two major clarinet quintets: Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet, an audience favorite, and Coleridge-Taylor’s Romantic gem for the same ensemble, inspired by Dvorak and Brahms. Erwin Schulhoff’s Five Pieces for String Quartet, a neoclassical work that glances back to the Baroque era, completes the program with elements of Czech folk music, tango, and a relentless rhythmic drive.

MOZART Clarinet Quintet in A Major, K. 581

SCHULHOFF Five Pieces for String Quartet

COLERIDGE-TAYLOR Clarinet Quintet in F Sharp Minor, Op. 10