Steven Kanoff; Richard Lester, Ian Brown
Release Date: 07 May 2021
Label: Etcetera
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 8711801016788
Genres: Classical Chamber Music
Description
'The master took interest in his warm performing manner, his beautiful tone with its flexibility in all registers, his breath-control and the musical phrasing it enabled.'
- Christian Muhlfeld recalls Brahms’ response to his brother Richard’s clarinet playing.
The clarinettist of the Meiningen court orchestra impressed the almost 60 year-old, retired symphonist to such an extent that the latter arose from his creative lethargy, went back to work and composed several pieces featuring the clarinet that same year.
We catch a glimpse of Brahms’ beguilement through the pages of the first Muhlfeld-inspired creation: the Trio opus 114. Throughout its four parts, Brahms makes the most of the clarinet’s registers: the upper echelon combining
power with brilliance, the lower boasting a range of ambers suited to grand melodic gestures, the middle harbouring an energy with potential for vigorous figuration, rhythmic vitality and dance-like dash.
"Steven Kanoff is a clarinettist who succeeds admirably in making his instrument a powerful, as well as a beautiful, one." - New York Times
Tracklisting
Bruno Monteiro, Joao Paulo Santos
Hendrickje Van Kerckhove, Eddy Vanoosthuyse, Severine Sierens, Hannelore Vermeir, Hans Ryckelynck,
Nuno Cernadas
Amy Norrington, Piet Kuijken
Herman Jeurissen, Ensemble Capricorno, Geerten van der Wetering
Currende, Erik van Vevel
Thomas Blondelle, Filip Rathe
Marco Mantovani
Karolos
The Counterpoints
Narratio Quartet
Danbi Um; Juho Pohjonen
Engegard Quartet, NyNorsk Messingkvintett
Flute Alors
Louise Bessette
Jonas Batstrand, Jorn Fossheim
