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Nielsen / Aho - Clarinet Concertos

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Label: BIS

Cat No: BISSACD1463

Barcode: 7318599914633

Format: Hybrid SACD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 2nd April 2007

Works

Aho, Kalevi

Clarinet Concerto

Nielsen, Carl

Clarinet Concerto, op.57 FS129

Artists

Martin Fröst (clarinet)
Lahti Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Osmo Vänskä

Works

Aho, Kalevi

Clarinet Concerto

Nielsen, Carl

Clarinet Concerto, op.57 FS129

Artists

Martin Fröst (clarinet)
Lahti Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Osmo Vänskä

About

While his concert programmes certainly include the works of Brahms, Schumann and their like, Martin Fröst is also known as one of today’s most charismatic performers of contemporary music, and on this disc he shows us why. Combining two great Scandinavian works for the clarinet, from 1928 and 2005 respectively, he makes a passionate case for music as a timeless and universal means of communication.

Carl Nielsen’s Concerto was one of the composer’s last works, but although Nielsen had by this time reached the status of elder statesman in Danish musical life, the complex work was met with consternation at its première. It has since become part of the clarinet repertoire.

In marked contrast, Kalevi Aho’s Concerto, composed for Fröst some 80 years later, was immediately hailed as ‘a masterpiece’ at its première, in London in April 2005: “Until you've heard Martin Fröst, you really haven't heard the clarinet. This young Swedish musician becomes the clarinet. His entire body moves and breathes with the instrument - and he creates sounds the likes of which you will go a very long way to hear… It's a mark of Fröst's imagination and genius that he chose the Finnish composer Kalevi Aho to write him a clarinet concerto... a work of beguiling beauty and huge excitement.” The Times.