Title

Overture Concertante

Year

1996

Instrumentation

for clarinet & orchestra

Notes

Requested by Kent Nagano for Jean-Michel Bertelli, Principal Clarinet, Lyon Symphony. Almost all musical material derived from the first few bars of the slow movement Brahms Clarinet Quintet.

Reviews

"Felciano premiere salvages concert ...refreshingly agenda-free music ...the solo music is carefully shaped and emerges with an ever-stronger and more distinctive personal profile. By the end ...it has thoroughly differentiated itself ...from the sonic pillars (of the orchestra) that once entrapped it — and done so in an emotionally gratifying way."
—Pfaff, San Francisco Examiner

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