Opus Chamber Music Series Presents the Ives Collective

When Mozart, Brahms, and Peter Schickele composed the works on this program they had particular performers in mind; they knew that their interpreters would grace each work with his unique voice. In Mozart’s case, that was pretty straightforward – he wrote for himself! But Brahms was actually brought out of “retirement” by the soulful sound of Richard Mühlfeld’s clarinet, and Northern California’s own Peter Schickele (better known by his alter ego, P.D.Q. Bach) wrote his Clarinet Quartet for the virtuoso clarinetist David Shifrin. These pieces exemplify the autumnal Brahms, Mozart at his most lyrical, and the always eclectic Peter Schickele.