Carlos Ferreira, clarinet

• Classical Music

The illustrious circle of »Rising Stars« 2024/25, selected from the great European concert halls, includes clarinettist Carlos Ferreira – although the title of a Rising Star almost seems too small. Solo clarinettist of the Orchestre National de France, prize winner of the famous ARD Music Competition and recipient of the solo artist prize from the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern – the Portuguese star is already high in the sky!

Ferreira presents a broadly-based programme that he designed together with pianist Pedro Emanuel Pereira. Both of them had already recorded an album together in 2023 and, as a well-functioning duo, carry off the Hamburg audience into the most diverse soundscapes. The spectrum of the evening ranges from the supple elegance of Claude Debussy via the warm melancholy of Johannes Brahms to the charming preposterousness of Francis Poulenc. If that is not enough variety for anyone, they can look forward to brand new music by young Chinese composer Lanqing Ding with the commissioned work for Carlos Ferreira.

PERFORMERS

Carlos Ferreira clarinet

Pedro Emanuel Pereira piano

PROGRAM

Charles-Marie Widor
Introduction et rondo, Op. 72

Claude Debussy
Première Rhapsodie for Clarinet in B-flat and Piano

Johannes Brahms
Sonata for Clarinet and Piano in E-flat major, Op. 120/2

- Interval -

Francis Poulenc
Sonata for Clarinet and Piano, FP 184

Lanqing Ding
ECHO Commissioned Work

Joseph Horovitz
Sonatina for Clarinet and Piano