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Brahms-Glanert - 4 Serious Songs; Brahms-Berio - Clarinet Sonata no.1; Glanert - Weites Land | Ondine ODE12632

Brahms-Glanert - 4 Serious Songs; Brahms-Berio - Clarinet Sonata no.1; Glanert - Weites Land

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Label: Ondine

Cat No: ODE12632

Barcode: 0761195126325

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 13th January 2017

Contents

About

This Ondine recording includes a fascinating programme: Luciano Berio’s (1925–2003) iconic adaptation of Johannes Brahms’s (1833–1897) Clarinet Sonata No.1 combined with Detlev Glanert’s (b.1960) recent arrangement of Brahms’s late vocal masterpiece, Four Serious Songs. Also included is Glanert’s new orchestral work Weites Land (2013) written in the spirit of Brahms. This disc includes as its soloists award-winning clarinetist Kari Kriikku and German baritone Michael Nagy. This is the second Ondine release of Estonian conductor Olari Elts together with the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra.

Reviews

Brahms’s vocal lines are given a powerful, burnished-sounding performance here by baritone Michael Nagy. Glanert’s orchestration is dark, intriguing and entirely idiomatic; even during the interludes, when Brahms’s voice yields to Glanert’s own, the music feels somehow more Brahmsian than Luciano Berio’s skilful but more straightforward soloist-and-orchestra arrangement of the Clarinet Sonata No 1, brightly played here by Kari Kriikku. In between comes Glanert’s Weites Land, which takes the first notes of Brahms’s Fourth Symphony as the starting point for an edgy, whirling orchestral fantasy.  Erica Jeal
The Guardian 26 January 2017

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