Toward the Empyrean Heaven: Music for Bass Clarinet
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Label: Urania
Cat No: LDV14049
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 14th June 2019
Contents
Works
DeepwoodBenedition nuptiale
Phantasy Quintet for bass clarinet and string quartet, op.93
Elegie
Duo de concert
Romanze
Evocation
Premiere Offertoire
Lied
Etienne Marcel: Opera en 4 actes
Artists
Stefano Cardo (clarinet, bass clarinet)Thomas Aber (bass clarinet)
Balthasar Hens (bass clarinet)
Ruta Stadalnykaite (piano)
Robert Pherigo (piano)
Hsiao-Yen Chen (piano)
Pietro Pasquini (organ)
Liliencron-Quartet der Stuttgarter Philharmoniker
Works
DeepwoodBenedition nuptiale
Phantasy Quintet for bass clarinet and string quartet, op.93
Elegie
Duo de concert
Romanze
Evocation
Premiere Offertoire
Lied
Etienne Marcel: Opera en 4 actes
Artists
Stefano Cardo (clarinet, bass clarinet)Thomas Aber (bass clarinet)
Balthasar Hens (bass clarinet)
Ruta Stadalnykaite (piano)
Robert Pherigo (piano)
Hsiao-Yen Chen (piano)
Pietro Pasquini (organ)
Liliencron-Quartet der Stuttgarter Philharmoniker
About
From its earliest days as a usable musical instrument the richly majestic tone of the bass clarinet has placed it in a category apart from other, perhaps more familiar, instruments. Its sonorous voice issued a summons to a sphere, whether celestial or infernal, beyond everyday existence. The bass clarinet began its orchestral career providing a particular dramatic effect in Parisian grand opera during the 1830s and since then has had consistent employment as a harbinger of supernatural, otherworldly mystery and as a portent of both death and the heavens beyond.
Gradually during the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth century composers recognized that the rich sonorities of the bass clarinet could offer, however, a wide range of expression and they began, very occasionally at first, to compose for it as a solo instrument. The selections on this disc are representative of a small, largely forgotten repertoire of solo and chamber pieces dating from the second half of the nineteenth century until the 1930s. The majority of the pieces on this disc have not previously been recorded. In keeping with the aesthetics of the period, these selections allow the profound voice of the bass clarinet, together with piano, organ, or string quartet, to produce a luminous sound and a musicality full of bliss; a bliss which transcends all sorrow (Paradiso XXX, 40-42, by Dante Alighieri).
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