Klarinet Archive - Posting 000655.txt from 1996/02

From: Mark Gustavson <FilbertCat@-----.COM>
Subj: Re: Eduard Brunner
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 13:39:48 -0500

There's a new ECM recording (1995) of works by Gyorgy Kurtag, and Robert
Schumann that features among Kim Kashkashian and Robert Levin the clarinetist
Eduard Brunner.

Does anyone know Eduard Brunner's playing and/or other recordings he is on?
The performance of the Fantasiestucke, op. 73 is wonderful as well as
unusual. The tempo of the first movement is mm 63! But through the combined
efforts of the pianist's and clarinetist's phrasing and balance it remains
fluid.

There is a trio (cl, vla, pno) by Gyorgy Kurtag (a living Hungarian
composer) that uses spots of the clarinet solo from Bartok's "Miraculous
Mandarin" as material but without sounding contrived.

Schumann's Marchenerazahlungen, op. 132 is also on the recording.

Mark Gustavson