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Martin Fröst, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen – Jesper Nordin: Emerging from Currents and Waves (Live) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:09:40 minutes | 622 MB | Genre: Classical
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‘The fantastic thing about art and music is that one can pose questions and conjure up visions at the same time.’ The words are those of the Swedish composer Jesper Nordin, who does exactly that in Emerging from Currents and Waves. A large-scale work for orchestra, clarinet soloist, conductor and live electronics, Emerging… is a collaboration between Nordin, Martin Fröst and Esa-Pekka Salonen. All three are interested in how new technology can – and will – influence art and artistic expression, and in exploring the intersection of mankind, music and technology.
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Martin Fröst – Night Passages (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 52:26 minutes | 844 MB | Genre: Classical
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Night Passages is a nocturnal journey through the mystical and the melancholic, the playful and the profound. The atmosphere of the album, which reinterprets favorite pieces from the Baroque period while also touching on jazz and folk music, carries the mood of nighttime improvisations and deep conversations among friends. An unusual ensemble with original arrangements for clarinet, bass and piano, arranged by Martin Fröst and his trio colleagues.
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Martin Fröst – Vivaldi (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:50 minutes | 1,10 GB | Genre: Classical
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Martin Fröst is an internationally renowned clarinettist and conductor ‘Vivaldi’ is a baroque adventure based on the question: What might Vivaldi have composed for the clarinet if it had been more fully developed? For this recording three clarinet concertos have been newly composed, made up of music drawn from Vivaldi’s most beautiful opera and oratorio arias Performed on the mellow, songlike chalumeau – the predecessor of the modern clarinet – and the brilliant, virtuosic clarinet of today, Martin Fröst and Concerto Köln create a won- derful symbiosis between the old and the new The album is complemented with two popular sinfonias by A. Vivaldi and one new air com- posed for chalumeau ‘Vivaldi’ was recorded with Grammy award winning baroque ensemble Concerto Köln
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Martin Fröst – Roots (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:04 minutes | 1,11 GB | Genre: Classical
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The clarinetist Martin Fröst, after a series of recordings of modern-ish Nordic and Germanic clarinet repertory on the Swedish label BIS, gets a larger mouthpiece here with a release on the major Sony Classical label. Fröst’s playing has never been better: he excels in both tough, angular lines and slow cantabile, and both are applied here to a wide variety of material. Three of Schumann’s Five Pieces in Folk Style, Op. 102, are made into a little sonata here, and sampling any one of them (tracks 7-9) will show you how compelling Fröst can make only moderately interesting music. Like those pieces, most of the music is arranged from music in media other than clarinet and orchestra. It circles around the theme of folk “roots” in classical music, with some very colorful treatments of traditional music as well as Bartók and a range of other pieces from Telemann to Piazzolla (an especially successful arrangement that sticks close to the original La muerte del Angel) and contemporary music. The range is very wide, and Fröst holds it together impressively. A couple of traditional pieces are given a gauzy choral backing; Fröst may have felt that such a crossover gesture was necessary in a major-label environment, but in this cast it detracts from a tightly constructed musical argument that could have stood better on its own. On balance, however, this will be a fine introduction for many listeners to one of the great instrumentalists of the present day.
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Martin Fröst, Swedish Chamber Orchestra – Mozart: Ecstasy & Abyss [PRAGUE, 1791] (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:39 minutes | 1,08 GB | Genre: Classical
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Musical maverick Martin Fröst’s most ambitious Sony Classical release yet sees him as both clarinetist and conductor, joining soloists Lucas Debargue (piano), Ann Hallenberg (Mezzo-Soprano) and Elin Rombo (Soprano) and the Swedish Chamber Orchestra, of which he is chief conductor, in a double-album of masterpieces capturing the paradox of Mozart’s fragile existence and extraordinary creativity. The album called “Mozart: Ecstasy and Abyss” is now available in CD format. Each of the release’s two albums focuses on a moment in Mozart’s life when the composer appeared to teeter on a knife-edge between triumph and disaster, joy and depression, life and death. It was these moments that brought the music of the most extraordinary beauty and intensity from the composer. Included are Mozart’s sublime Clarinet Concerto, his simmering Piano Concerto No 25 (soloist Lucas Debargue), his joyous Prague and Jupiter symphonies and sparkling arias from the opera’s La clemenza di Tito (with Ann Hallenberg) and Idomeneo (with Elin Rombo). The first album takes its inspiration from a concert Mozart gave in Leipzig in May 1789, a difficult moment in his life marked out by personal, financial and creative pressures. The second album focuses on the composer’s triumphant visit to Prague in August 1791, an ostensibly far happier period. Both albums capture the combination of playfulness and profundity, light and shade, brilliance and tragedy that characterized so many moments in Mozart’s life and career – the dichotomy that sets his best music apart. This release marks Fröst’s recorded debut as a conductor, while he directs the orchestra in his third recording of Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto from the Basset Clarinet, the variant instrument for which it was written. Martin Fröst is chief conductor of the Swedish Chamber Orchestra and frequently appears with the world’s most distinguished orchestras. In 2014, he became the first clarinetist to win the prestigious Léonie Sonning Music Prize.
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Martin Fröst, Lucas Debargue – Mozart: Ecstasy & Abyss [LEIPZIG, 1789] (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:16:17 minutes | 1,44 GB | Genre: Classical
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The new double album by Martin Fröst is dedicated to the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. For the first time he can be heard here as a conductor – with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra, of which he is the musical director. The program includes Mozart’s late works, which were created at particularly precarious moments for the composer personally – and which, apparently, are of selected intensity and beauty regardless. The subtitle “Ecstasy and Abyss” – “Ecstasy and Abyssalness” – takes this unusual temporal coincidence into account. Martin Fröst can be heard with his third recording of the clarinet Concerto in A major K. 622, which he plays on the basset clarinet, as composed by Mozart. Martin Fröst also conducts the “Prague” Symphony in D major K. 504 and Mozart’s last symphony, the “Jupiter” Symphony in C major K. 551. The French pianist Lucas Debargue is the soloist at the piano concerto in C major K. 503, soprano Elin Rombo sings the concert aria “Ch’io mi scordi di te? – Non temer, amato bene” KV 505 and mezzo-soprano Ann Hallenberg the aria of Sesto “Parto, ma tu, ben mio” from the late seria opera “La Clemenza di Tito” KV 621, again accompanied by Martin Fröst on basset clarinet.
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