Trio di Clarone featuring Sabine Meyer

Thursday, January 26, 2012 / 7:30pm / Loeb Playhouse

With its dark-toned, melancholy sound and unusual shape, the basset horn is a rarity in the clarinet family—and the concert hall. However, no composer accomplished more for this expressive instrument than Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who wrote numerous works for the horn, including five luminous Divertimenti. Fueled by a fascination with the horn’s sound, the German clarinet virtuoso Sabine Meyer, her brother Wolfgang, and husband Reiner Wehle formed Trio di Clarone in 1983.

For nearly three decades, this trio has paired Mozart’s ingenious works with important present-day compositions and occasionally ventured into colorful collaborations with jazz and blues musicians. Bringing with it a sound The Detroit News called “an eloquent, illuminating expression of chamber music,” the trio will perform a program including Mozart, Francis Poulenc, Bach, and Stravinsky.