A Clarinet in America: Copland, Bernstein, Rozsa | Orchid Classics ORC100155

A Clarinet in America: Copland, Bernstein, Rozsa

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Label: Orchid Classics

Cat No: ORC100155

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 12th February 2021

Contents

Artists

Alexander Fiterstein (clarinet)
English Chamber Orchestra

Conductor

Chris Hopkins

Works

Bernstein, Leonard

Clarinet Sonata

Copland, Aaron

Clarinet Concerto
Clarinet Sonata

Rozsa, Miklos

Sonatina for solo clarinet, op.27

Artists

Alexander Fiterstein (clarinet)
English Chamber Orchestra

Conductor

Chris Hopkins

About

The clarinet has long been embraced by American composers for its jauntiness and jazzy flexibility (think of that slide opening Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue), qualities heard in abundance on this album. We hear Leonard Bernstein’s Cuban-influenced Sonata, and the Sonatina by Budapest-born Miklós Rózsa, who made his name as a Hollywood movie composer. These pieces are bookended by two Aaron Copland works, his Concerto, for American jazz clarinettist and ‘King of Swing’, Benny Goodman, and his Sonata.

Alexander Fiterstein
’s playing with the Tesla Quartet was praised by The Arts Desk as “impressive” and “heart-stopping”. The Washington Post described his playing as “dazzling in its spectrum of colours, agility, and range. Every sound he makes is finely measured without inhibiting expressiveness” and The New York Times described him as “a clarinettist with a warm tone and powerful technique.”

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