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Johannes Brahms - Clarinet Sonatas & Trio (Martin Fröst)


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Composer: Johannes Brahms
  1. Sonata No. 1 in F minor for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 120 No. 1: I. Allegro appassionato
  2. Sonata No. 1 in F minor for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 120 No. 1: II. Andante un poco Adagio
  3. Sonata No. 1 in F minor for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 120 No. 1: III. Allegretto grazioso
  4. Sonata No. 1 in F minor for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 120 No. 1: IV. Vivace
  5. Sonata No. 2 in E flat major for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 120 No. 2: I. Allegro amabile
  6. Sonata No. 2 in E flat major for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 120 No. 2: II. Allegro appassionato
  7. Sonata No. 2 in E flat major for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 120 No. 2: III. Andante con moto
  8. Sonata No. 2 in E flat major for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 120 No. 2: IV. Allegro
  9. Trio in A minor for Clarinet, Piano and Cello, Op. 114: I. Allegro
  10. Trio in A minor for Clarinet, Piano and Cello, Op. 114: II. Adagio
  11. Trio in A minor for Clarinet, Piano and Cello, Op. 114: III. Andantino grazioso
  12. Trio in A minor for Clarinet, Piano and Cello, Op. 114: IV. Allegro

Martin Fröst, clarinet
Roland Pöntinen, piano
Torleif Thedéen, cello (9-12)

Date: 2005
Label: BIS
http://bis.se/label/bis/brahms-clarinet-sonatas-trio


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Review

Fröst on top form in a generous Brahms recital

The Trio tends to be the neglected one among the great clarinet works from Brahms’s mellow last period, usually coupled with the Clarinet Quintet as though it is a poor relation. That is grossly unfair to a work which, while maybe not on such a grand scale as the Quintet, has over its four compact movements both profundity and charm. BIS, however, has put it with the Sonatas, works on a scale closer to the Trio, and an excellent and successful coupling it is.

Young Swedish clarinettist Martin Fröst has established himself as a leading soloist, appearing with many of the most important European orchestras and inspiring works from composers including Penderecki. He tends to favour speeds on the fast side in the Trio, which means that the second movement Andante may lack the meditative depth one finds with Thea King on Hyperion but which has an easy flow. The dramatic bite and thrust of the outer movements is enhanced by relatively urgent speeds, with the coda of the first fading away on a ghostly scalic passage.

Cellist Torleif Thedéen matches Fröst in imaginative playing but pianist Roland Pöntinen, placed backward in the recording balance, is less individual. That is even more noticeable in the sonatas, where he cannot match Daniel Barenboim, whose performances with Gervase de Peyer have made a very welcome reappearance on Classics for Pleasure.

Michael Collins’s and Mikhail Pletnev’s sonatas disc (Virgin, 5/90 – nla) is outstanding and must surely be reissued. Thea King’s Helios budget version with Clifford Benson has only the sonatas, making a short-measure disc, but is otherwise excellent. That brings me back to the great merit of the BIS issue: it’s generously filled and the couplings are apt.

-- Edward Greenfield, Gramophone

More reviews:
ClassicsToday  ARTISTIC QUALITY: 10 / SOUND QUALITY: 10
http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2006/July06/Brahms_Frost_BISSACD1353.htm
https://www.amazon.com/Brahms-Clarinet-Sonatas-Martin-Frost/dp/B000C847KO

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Johannes Brahms (7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) was a German composer and pianist. In his lifetime, Brahms's popularity and influence were considerable. Brahms composed for symphony orchestra, chamber ensembles, piano, organ, and voice and chorus. Many of his works have become staples of the modern concert repertoire. An uncompromising perfectionist, Brahms destroyed some of his works and left others unpublished. Brahms is often considered both a traditionalist and an innovator. His music is firmly rooted in the structures and compositional techniques of the Classical masters, with a highly romantic nature embedded within.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Brahms

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Martin Fröst (born 14 December 1970) is a Swedish clarinetist and conductor. He started to learn the clarinet at the age of 8, and studied with Hans Deinzer in Germany and Sölve Kingstedt and Kjell-Inge Stevensson in Stockholm. Fröst has been described by the New York Times as having "a virtuosity and a musicianship unsurpassed by any clarinettist". As a conductor, he has been a conductor-in-association with the Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra, is currently Artistic Partner with The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. Fröst has recorded commercially for such labels as BIS Records and Sony Classical.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Fr%C3%B6st
http://www.martinfrost.se/

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