Brahms & Neikrug

Influential 20th-century Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu’s wonderfully eerie and evocative Rain Spell opens this wide-ranging program, which includes one of Brahms’s last works—his masterful Clarinet Trio, featuring legendary clarinetist David Shifrin—as well as the New Mexico premiere of Festival Artistic Director Marc Neikrug’s Fantasy for Clarinet, Viola, Cello, and Percussion.

TAKEMITSU Rain Spell 

MARC NEIKRUG Fantasy for Clarinet, Viola, Cello, and Percussion (New Mexico Premiere) 

BRAHMS Trio in A Minor for Piano, Clarinet, and Cello, Op. 114 

Orion Weiss, piano; Steven Tenenbom, viola; Felix Fan, Peter Stumpf, cello; Grace Browning, harp; Bart Feller, flute; Laura Ardan, David Shifrin, clarinet; Aiyun Huang, percussion 

Approximate length: 1 hour and 10 minutes