David Shifrin – The Cave of Wondrous Voice (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:06 minutes | 1,10 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Delos
The music in this album sings and dances, in Abels colorful blend of styles that serve the emotional nature of each work to bracing and poignant effect (Gramophone). It further clarifies why Abel is one of the most interesting figures in American contemporary music (Pizzicato). Composer Mark Abel has been based in California for the past three decades. Abels idiom eludes easy pigeon-holing. It includes chamber music and vocal works, whose contours extend from art song to larger forms with orchestra to a 103-minute chamber opera, Home Is a Harbor. This is Marks fifth release on Delos.
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David Shifrin – Nielsen: Clarinet Concerto & Chamber Music with Clarinet (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 51:13 minutes | 881 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Delos
This delightful and lighthearted album features virtuoso clarinetist David Shifrin performing Carl Nielsen’s Clarinet Concerto in a newly arranged accompaniment for chamber orchestra. The dramatic work unfolds unpredictably in short, contrasting episodes that allow the soloist to explore a range of moods and colours.
We are then treated to Nielsen’s charming Six Humorous Bagatelles, written for his children. From the simply put “Hello, Hello” to the final “Musical Clock,” these endearing pieces radiate good humor and adventure.
Nielsen’s early Fantasy Pieces with their varying moods and harmonic twists reveal Nielsen’s romantic side, and his Serenata in Vano for wind quintet shows off Nielsen’s affinity for wind instruments and his quirky, playful sensibility.
“If there is a bel canto school of clarinet playing, Shifrin is surely its finest exponent.” (The Los Angeles Times)
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