The soloists of the Algarve Orchestra present an unusual line-up for this chamber music concert: a wind quartet comprising Joaquim Moita on bassoon, Luís Miguel Garcia on flute, Emídio Costa on clarin
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The soloists of the Algarve Orchestra present an unusual line-up for this chamber music concert: a wind quartet comprising Joaquim Moita on bassoon, Luís Miguel Garcia on flute, Emídio Costa on clarinet, and André Gomes on horn. In an era dominated by Rossini’s operas, Schubert would surely have heard many arrangements of his operas performed by small ensembles such as the wind quartet. We therefore pay tribute to him by performing the masterful slow movement from his principal string quartet, ‘Death and the Maiden’, written in 1824. Finally, to showcase the sounds of our own times, the wind quartet will perform a tango by Daniel Dorff, composed in 1990 for clarinet quartet, which was so successful that the composer had to write more than a dozen versions for other instrumental ensembles. Tonight’s version is the 14th.
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