Devienne: Sonata No. 1 in C

Poulenc: Sonata Op. 184

Saint-Saëns: Sonata Op. 167 in E flat

Milhaud: Scaramouche (1939)

 

Sabine Meyer - clarinet

Oleg Maisenberg - piano

 

This exciting program of French chamber music encompasses works by Devienne, Poulenc, Saint-Saëns and Milhaud for clarinet and piano.

 

Sabine Meyer is regarded as one of the most outstanding clarinettists of our time. After studying with Otto Hermann in Stuttgart and Hans Deinzer in Hannover, Sabine first became a member of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Munich and subsequently became the first female member of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra as solo clarinettist.

 

Born in Odessa, Oleg Maisenberg received his first piano lessons from his mother at the age of five. He completed his studies at the Central Music School Kishinev and at the Gnessin Institute in Moscow (with Prof. Jocheles). In 1967 he won the second prize at the International Schubert Competition in Vienna, where in the same year he won the first prize in the competition Music of the 20th Century as well. From 1971 to 1980 he regularly appeared with the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra and other renowned orchestras of the former Soviet Union. In 1981 Oleg Maisenberg emigrated to Vienna, the city that has since become his second home.

 

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