Finzi:
Five Bagatelees

Bernstein:
Sonata for Clarinet and Piano

Bartok:
Romanian Folk Dances Sz. 56

Debussy:
Premiere Rhapsodie

Ravel:
Piece en Forme de Habanera

Larsen:
Blue Third Pieces for Clarinet and Guitar

Kovacs:
Sholem-alekhem

Paquita D'Rivera:
Vals Venzolano

Grammy Award-winning clarinetist Todd Levy, who holds the principal chairs with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and Santa Fe Opera, presents Rhapsodie, an astonishing array of classic 20th-century works for his instrument. The rich pallette of colors and immense versatility of the clarinet is on full display in impressionistic Debussy and Ravel, Cubanisto-style Bernstein, pastoral Finzi, the folk idioms of Bartok, klezmer inspiration by Béla Kovács, blues-inflected Libby Larsen and genre-bending Paquito D’Rivera. Todd’s technical wizardry is flawless throughout and is matched by his collaborators pianists Jeannie Wu and Elena Abend, and guitarist Rene Izquierd.