Duo Alban Berg at the Teatro dei Differenti

A well attended piano and clarinet concert this evening at the Teatro dei Differenti for third in the series organised by the Nova Arcadia Associazione.

This week it was the turn of that popular pair of musicians, The Duo Alban Berg. For once Schoenberg had little to do with the proceedings as the pair happily swam through a series of musical tributes to America from such differing sources as George Gershwin, to jazz numbers by Benny Goodman and through onto Claude Debussy.

The mezzosoprano Ida-Maria Turri came on in the second half of the concert and brought some added verve and colour to the proceedings, although the pianist Massimo Salotti appeared pale and seemed to be having problems with his instrument during some of the numbers... could he have had intruders? More images and a small MP3 file of the beautiful final encore from the Duo can be seen here