Release Date: 02 October 2020
Label: ECM Records
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 028948195121
Genres: Classical Chamber Music
Description
Two great artists, pianist Sir Andras Schiff and composer/clarinettist Jorg Widmann, join forces for the first time on record, performing Brahms's late masterpieces, the clarinet sonatas op. 120, written in 1894.
In between the sonatas Schiff plays Widmann's evocative Intermezzi for piano which he composed especially for Schiff making this new recording the premiere.
As Jorg Widmann explains in a programme note, these are works inspired by his friendship with Andras Schiff and by a shared love of Brahms, to whom they pay tribute.
Jorg Widmann says of this work:
"In their disconcerting concision and terse brevity, Johannes Brahms' late intermezzos occupy a unique place in the piano literature. It was this inflection in Brahms' late music that I sought to capture in my own intermezzos, however different I might be in age and disposition.
I owe the existence of my piano intermezzos to my longstanding friendship with Sir Andras Schiff. Over the years we have played the magnificent late op. 120 clarinet sonatas many times, and also spoken of our love for Brahms, over and over again.
We presented a joint programme devoted to Brahms-related pieces at the 2010 Salzburg Festival, also including such Brahms-related pieces as Zemlinsky's Clarinet Trio op. 3. It was at this recital that Andras gave my piano intermezzos their premiere performance."
The album was recorded at Neumarkt's Historischer Reitstadel.
Tracklisting
Various artists
Yuval Cohen Quartet
Thomas Stronen; Craig Taborn; Chris Potter; Sinikka Langeland; Jorge Rossy
Stephan Micus
Rainer Bruninghaus
Paul Bley
Mathias Eick; Kristjan Randalu; Ole Morten Vagan; Hans Hulbaekmo
Julia Hulsmann Quartet
The Noise String Quartet, Veronique Serret, Mirabai Peart, James Eccles, Oliver Miller
Martin Rummel, Philippe Raskin
Zemlinsky Quartet
Joana Luisa Nogueira Amorim & Fernando Miguel Jaloto
Tom Mckinney, Simon Passmore, Victoria String Quartet
Roctet
Brackman Trio
Ars Antiqua Austria; Gunar Letzbor; Erich Traxler
