Brahms - Clarinet Sonatas, 5 Lieder
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Label: TYXart
Cat No: TXA20152
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 23rd April 2021
Contents
Works
Clarinet Sonata no.1 in F minor, op.120 no.1Clarinet Sonata no.2 in E flat major, op.120 no.2
Lieder (5), op.71
Artists
Ron Selka (clarinet)Aviram Reichert (piano)
Works
Clarinet Sonata no.1 in F minor, op.120 no.1Clarinet Sonata no.2 in E flat major, op.120 no.2
Lieder (5), op.71
Artists
Ron Selka (clarinet)Aviram Reichert (piano)
About
This CD is a milestone in a long musical journey traversed together. With this glorious complementary pair of Clarinet Sonatas, Brahms pays tribute to Mühlfeld’s variegated tone palette, the first sonata sombre and rapturous, the second mellow and lyrical, together covering every possible nuance of colour and mood, lyrical, rich in texture and melodic invention.
Richard Mühlfeld was principal clarinettist of the Meiningen Orchestra (Germany), whose playing instantly captivated Brahms when he first heard him play in early 1891.
Although Beethoven’s shadow may have loomed large over Brahms’s instrumental music, Brahms was considerably more relaxed in composing for the voice. From his earliest youth to his final composition, Vier ernste Gesänge (Four Serious Songs), song-writing stood at the very heart of his work, free from the uncompromising self-critical scrutiny to which he subjected his instrumental works.
Song was not only present in his vocal works - numbering nearly three hundred - but also in many of his instrumental works, which frequently quoted or alluded to songs, or had a distinct song-like quality to them. In light of this transmigration between the vocal and the instrumental, arrangements of Brahms’s songs such as those on this album are a natural extension of a well-established Brahmsian practice.
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