Klarinet Archive - Posting 000672.txt from 2000/02

From: Audrey Travis <vsofan@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] "Close-Ups: Music for Clarinet and Percussion"
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 19:11:29 -0500

Lelia
If you enjoyed Martin Frost, I can also recommend his earlier recording (1994)
with pianist Roland Pontinen. The CD is called "French Beauties and Swedish
Beasts". It contains Debussy's "Premiere Rhapsody", Saint-Saens "Sonate pour
clarinette et piano" and the Poulenc "Sonate pour clarinette en si bemol et
piano", then goes ton o Ingvar Lidholm's "Amicizia per clarinetto solo", Anders
Hillborg's "Tampere Raw" (composed especially for Frost), and Roland Pontinen's
"Mercury Dreams". Apparently, Frost (this is the spelling on my album) has a
very close working relationship with Hillborg and has worked on his opera "The
Ratcatcher". He's also in contact with Krzystof Penderecki and has recorded
some of his music with the Tale Quartet on BIS-CD-652 (I haven't heard this
one). The call no.for "French Beauties..." is BIS-CD-693.

Hope you get to hear at least "FBaSB".

Cheers

Audrey

LeliaLoban@-----.com wrote:

> Someone recently asked about contemporary clarinet music. I just bought this
> 1997 recording today.
>
> "Close-Ups: Music for Clarinet and Percussion"
> Martin Froest, clarinet and Niklas Brommare, percussion
> BIS-CD-744 (DDD stereo)
>
> Even though this CD has been out for awhile, I decided to recommend it here,
> since I enjoy it and can find nothing about it in the klarinet archives.
> Please bear in mind that I'm an amateur musician. I would like to hear what
> professional clarinetists think of this recording. Here is the program:
>
> Anders Hillborg, "Nursery Rhymes I & II" (clarinet and percussion)
> Edison Denison, "Sonata" for Bb clarinet (1972)
> Paer Lindgren, "Woodpecker's Chant" (solo percussion)
> Anders Hillborg, "Close-Ups" (clarinet and percussion)
> Joann Kuchera-Morin, "Yugen" (solo clarinet)
> Paer Lindgren, "Beep-Ooh" (clarinet and percussion)
> Niklas Siveloev, "Twist and Shout" ("The Puppet")
> Fredrik Hoegberg, "PlastMusikk" (clarinet and percussion with tape by
> Hoegberg)
>
> Listen for a bit of uncredited voice, too! The musicians, both Swedish, made
> this recording in Austria (*before* Haider...). "Froest" should be "Frost"
> with an umlaut over the "o". I have likewise butchered the other names where
> you see "oe" and "ae" because I can't produce an umlaut.
>
> My favorite pieces on the CD are the Denisov and the Kuchera-Morin. This CD
> is one of the most good-humored contemporary recordings I've heard, great
> fun. ("Beep-Ooh" sounds downright silly.) However, all of the music, some
> of it commissioned for these musicians, sounds to me as though it demands
> virtuosic technical skills. This CD provides a good sampling for students
> who would like to hear a wide range of progressive, contemporary techniques
> on clarinet: a lot of altissimo, sudden, wide interval leaps (sometimes more
> than three octaves at a pop), multiphonics, growling, glissandos,
> double-tonguing, flutter-tonguing, quarter-tones, percussive sounds (i.e. on
> the clarinet, not the percussion: rather like a rattlesnake's warning played
> back at slow speed) and rapid switches between alternate fingerings of the
> same note, to give different timbres to repeated notes, among other things.
>
> The brief but excellent liner notes include publishers for only the two
> compositions that have been published (B&H for the Denison sonata and
> Gehrmans for "PlastMusikk"), short biographies of the two musicians and
> specifications of instruments for each selection. (Froest plays Buffet RC
> Prestige clarinets with Vandoren B-40 mouthpiece and Vandoren V-12 reeds.)
> I've never heard anything else by either of these artists, but will certainly
> look out for them. Froest has also recorded chamber music of Krzysztof
> Penderecki with the Tale Quartet (BIS-CD-652) and French and Swedish music
> for clarinet and piano, with pianist Roland Poentinen (BIS-CD-693).
>
> Lelia
>
> I'm making my stupid pet human type this. Forget everything Lelia wrote.
> Your cats don't want you to buy this CD. We forbid you to buy it. It's a
> nasty, subversive, lying record with birdy sounds that invite me to hunt,
> only there are no real birdies; and squeaky sounds that make me rub my ears
> with your paws as if I had fleas -- how embarrassing! -- and worst of all,
> it's got bangy drums and gongs and little fidgitty-clicky insect noises.
> Nasty, nasty. If you already did buy this CD, kindly take it outside and
> smash it with a rock. A big rock.
>
> Shadow Cat
>
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