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Allan Ware, Clarinet

Wolfgang Mechsner, Piano

The Clarinet and Piano Duo with Allan Ware and Wolfgang Mechsner has performed almost all of the standard works and many lesser known works for clarinet and piano on international stages. They offer a variety of programs covering the huge repertoire for this combination.

Program suggestions, see below

WOLFGANG MECHSNER was born in Dortmund and studied with Prof. G. Weichert at the Northwest German Music Academy in Münster. As a student he performed as a soloist with the symphonic orchestras in Münster and Dortmund.  After teaching for two years at the City Conservatory of Osnabrück he became a full-time teacher at the University of Osnabrück at its branch in Vechta in 1985. 

In addition to his piano class at the Conservatory in Osnabrück, a branch of the Musikhochschule in Hannover WOLFGANG MECHSNER is a popular soloist and accompanist for Lied and chamber music and is author of a biography of the German composer, Wilhelm Petersen and a book entitled "Improvising Song Accompaniments”.  Visit www.wolfgang-mechsner.de

 

Program Suggestions / Programmvorschläge

Clarinet and Piano/Klarinette und Klavier

Eine Reise um die Welt (und durch die Zeit)

A Trip around the World (and through Time)

Rußland/Russia

Alexander Tscherepnin Sonate in einem Satz (1939)

Italien/Italy

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco – 1. Satz aus der Sonata, op. 128

Deutschland-Schottland/Germany-Scotland

Carl Loewe – 2 Sätze aus Schottische Bilder, op. 112

Frankreich/France

Francis Poulenc Sonata (1962) “ à la mémoire d'Artur Honegger"

England

Ralph Vaughan-Williams –2 Sätze aus Six Studies in English Folk Songs

Ungarn/Hungary

Leó Weiner - Peregi Verbunk (Werbungstanz)

Puerto Rico

Roberto Sierra – 2 Sätze aus Cinco Bocetos (Fünf Skizzen) (1984)

USA

Leonard Bernstein Sonata "for David Oppenheim" (194142)

 

Deutsch-Französische Virtuosität

Norbert Burgmüller ‑ Duo, op. 15 in Es‑dur

Claude Debussy ‑ Première Rhapsodie

Charles Camille Saint‑Saëns ‑ Sonate op.

Francois Devienne ‑ Sonate

Carl Maria von Weber ‑ Grand Duo Concertante, op. 48

 

Internationale Begegnung (mit Feuerwerk)

Claude Debussy ‑ Première Rhapsodie

Niels Gade ‑ Fantasiestücke, op. 43

Gioachino Rossini ‑ Introduktion, Thema und Variationen

LEÓ WEINER - Peregi Verbunk

Carl Reinecke - Sonate, „Undine“, op. 167*

*Oder anstatt Reinecke eine der Brahms-Sonaten Op. 120

 

 

Classical, Romantic and Modern German

Deutsche Klassik, Romantik, Moderne

Wanhal - Sonate

Hindemith - Sonate

Alban Berg - Vier Stücke

Brahms - Sonate f-moll

 

 

Internationales Potpourri / International Mix

Honegger - Sonatine

Strawinski - Drei Stücke

Martinu - Sonatina

Schumann - Fantasiestücke

Weber - Gran Duo Concertante

 

 

Aus Frankreich/from France

Milhaud - Duo Concertante

Saints-Saens - Sonate

Debussy - Premiére Rhapsodie

Messiaen - Abyss of the Birds (Solo clarinet)

Poulenc - Sonate

 

 

Internationales Potpourri II / International II

Gade - Fantasiestücke

Lutoslawski - Five Dance Preludes

Burgmüller - Duo in Es-dur

Brahms - Sonate Es-dur

 

Women Composers/Komponistinnen

Jacqueline Fontyn - Mime II

Ilse Fromm-Michaels - Stimmungen eines Faunes (solo clarinet)

Elisabeth Lutyens - Five Little Pieces

Violetta Dinescu - Satya IV

Elisabeth Maconchy - Fantasia

Marie Elisabeth von Sachsen-Meiningen - Romanze

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Allan Ware - Bismarckstr. 52 - D-49076 Osnabrück - Tel: 0541-34500112 - - email: ware.allan@gmail.com

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