Julian Bliss clarinet; James Baillieu piano

Romanian composer Tiberiu Olah’s Sonata for clarinet solo distils the energy and mystery of primeval folk music into a short work of immense character. Julian Bliss sets it in company with the lyricism of the second of the two Clarinet sonatas Brahms composed in his final years. In the programme’s second half, he and James Baillieu explore the melancholy moods of Robert Schumann’s Fantasiestücke Op. 73 and restless contrasts of Brahms’s Clarinet Sonata in F minor.