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Nicola Heywood Thomas presents Schumann Plus, a series of concerts broadcast live from St David's Hall, Cardiff, focusing on the music of Robert Schumann, plus works by lesser-known composers including Doreen Carwithen, Henri毛tte Bosmans, Ruth Gipps and Susan Spain-Dunk.

In the third concert this week broadcast live from St David鈥檚 Hall in Cardiff, clarinettist Peter Cigleris joins with the pianist Duncan Honeybourne to perform Schumann鈥檚 Fantasiest眉cke. Composed in 1849, it's one of the Hausmusik items Schumann wrote for home consumption, as a way of bringing his name before a wider public and also earning more money. Honeybourne continues with two works for solo piano, including Schumann鈥檚 lyrical Romance in F sharp, and a World Premiere of Susan Spain-Dunk鈥檚 set of two piano Preludes, composed in 1941 in Beaconsfield where she was temporarily staying to escape the London Blitz. Marking the centenary year of her birth, Cigleris returns to the platform to perform the Sonata for Clarinet by Ruth Gipps. The concert concludes with a tribute to the tradition of the klezmer clarinet, Sholem-alekhem, rov Feidman! by the Hungarian clarinettist B茅la Kov谩cs.

Peter Cigleris, clarinet
Duncan Honeybourne, piano

Schumann: Fantasiest眉cke, Op 73
Schumann: Romance in F sharp, Op 28 No 2
Spain-Dunk: Prelude No 1 & 2 (World Premiere)
Gipps: Clarinet Sonata, Op 45
Kov谩cs: Sholem-alekhem, rov Feidman!

Produced by Luke Whitlock