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Weinberg - Clarinet Music | Naxos 8574192

Weinberg - Clarinet Music

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Label: Naxos

Cat No: 8574192

Barcode: 0747313419272

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 13th March 2020

Contents

Artists

Robert Oberaigner (clarinet)
Michael Schoch (piano)
Dresden Chamber Soloists

Conductor

Michail Jurowski

Works

Weinberg, Mieczyslaw

Chamber Symphony no.4 for string orchestra and clarinet, op.153
Clarinet Concerto, op.104
Clarinet Sonata, op.28

Artists

Robert Oberaigner (clarinet)
Michael Schoch (piano)
Dresden Chamber Soloists

Conductor

Michail Jurowski

About

Mieczysław Weinberg was familiar with the clarinet from his youth, given its prominent place in klezmer bands and theatre ensembles, and he wrote three works specifically for the instrument. In the Clarinet Concerto he draws a wide range of textures from the accompanying strings, over which the soloist explores the clarinet’s extremes of register in virtuosic fashion. Despite having been written when Weinberg was still in his mid-twenties, the Clarinet Sonata is a mature work with Romantic and folkloric elements. His last completed work was the Chamber Symphony no.4, an impassioned piece with a wrenching chorale theme and role for obbligato clarinet.

Following the centennial of Weinberg’s birth in 2019, this new release is the first disc including all three works featuring the clarinet.

Other Weinberg releases in the Naxos catalogue include the ongoing symphonic cycle by Vladimir Lande. Of the Symphony no.13 disc (8573879), Fanfare stated that ‘Lande evidently knows and loves this music and moves the symphony along effectively’, while the Symphony no.17 release (8573565) received a ‘Quarterly Critics’ Choice’ from the German Record Critics’ Award and an AllMusic.com ‘Editor’s Choice’. Also available is Claudia Stein’s recording of the Flute Concertos (8573931), in which Pizzicato wrote the flautist ‘shows the combination of technical ability and musicality’ (★★★★★).

Michael Schöch is equally proficient in both the piano and organ. Since being awarded First Prize at the ARD International Music Competition in the organ category, he has performed at prestigious venues such as the Wiener Konzerthaus and Berliner Philharmonie, and the cathedrals of Riga, Passau, Merseburg, Mainz and Speyer. His vast discography includes the piano concertos of Tyrolean composers such as Johann Rufinatscha and Emil Berlanda, and the complete piano and organ works of Julius Reubke (OehmsClassics).

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