Julian Bliss
Image credit: © Rebecca Scholldorf
This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval
Priority Booking for this concert will open to Friends of Wigmore Hall from Wednesday 14 January 2026 at 10.00am. For a full breakdown of booking dates, please visit our Priority Booking page.
General sale for this concert will open at 10.00am on Tuesday 27 January 2026.
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Romanian composer Tiberiu Olah’s Sonata for clarinet solo distils the energy and mystery of primeval folk music into a short work of immense character. Julian Bliss sets it in company with the lyricism of the second of the two Clarinet sonatas Brahms composed in his final years. In the programme’s second half, he and James Baillieu explore the melancholy moods of Robert Schumann’s Fantasiestücke Op. 73 and restless contrasts of Brahms’s Clarinet Sonata in F minor.