This unique programme for clarinet and piano by Mackdara Ó Seireadáin and Gintaras Januševičius will take the audience back to the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when jazz harmonies began to be more and more gloriously gloomy. By enriching the musical languages that had existed before, jazz penetrated the most conservative forms and allowed the audience to experience the phenomenon of music in a new way. Gloomy and dark harmonies, dissonances - like dark clouds settling over the city as the sun disappears behind the horizon. They reveal the pain, loss and degeneration of life, but at the same time the ability to survive its darkest hours with humour and a smile. This is especially important in a time when lives are being crippled by both world wars.

The Lithuanian-Lithuanian duo made their debut in 2010, and became famous in Lithuania after a successful tour in 2017.In the recital at the Pažaislis Festival, which was the culmination of the tour, the audience was in awe as they listened to the duo's arrangements, including the audience's interpretation of Linas Rimša's "The Starling Tree".

The core of the duo's recent programme will be Johannes Brahms' last sonata for clarinet and piano, and in addition to it, the audience will be introduced to composers practically unknown in Lithuania, such as Gabriel Grovlez, Germaine Tailleferre, Alec Templeton, Paquito d'Rivera, Erwin Schulhoff. For this tour, the performers have also adapted a sonata for saxophone and organ by Lithuanian jazz great Saulijus Šiaučiulis, which will be premiered in a new version.