We bridge the gap between jazz and classical through a truly versatile and virtuosic instrument, the clarinet.
Composed in the 1940s, Copland's Clarinet Concerto, Stravinsky's Ebony Concerto, and Bernstein's Prelude, Fugue and Riffs were all intended for clarinettist Benny Goodman's spellbinding and frantic playing.
In turn, the young virtuoso Pierre Génisson, accompanied by the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Keith Lockhart, performs these American pieces but also great jazz standards popularized by Benny Goodman.