Maximiliano Martin

Maximiliano Martin – Origines & Départs: French Music for Clarinet and Piano (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:23 minutes | 1,10 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © 2022 Delphian Records Ltd.

Born in the Canary Islands and resident for many years in Scotland, clarinettist Maximiliano Martín follows up his Delphian solo debut – a collection of concertante works recorded with the symphony orchestra of his native Tenerife – with a programme for clarinet and piano that similarly explores the ways in which music can express national character as well as tracking more personal life journeys.

Maxi’s infectious personality is reflected in this deeply personal album, a joyous exploration of French repertoire (from the tenderness of Saint-Saëns’s clarinet sonata to the playfulness of Poulenc’s) that is supplemented by recent works from the two places he calls home: exquisite miniatures from the Scottish composer Eddie McGuire and the Tenerife-born Gustavo Trujillo.
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Maximiliano Martin – Caprices & Laments: Clarinet Concertos by Nielsen, Copland & MacMillan (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:02:51 minutes | 589 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Delphian Records

The benevolent shadow of Mozart meets a strain of emotional turbulence in Carl Nielsen’s unforgettable, at times inscrutable Clarinet Concerto – his last major orchestral work, completed three years before his death in 1931. Dating from two decades later, Aaron Copland’s concerto for the same instrument similarly bridges stylistic and expressive contrasts: composed with the genre-crossing expertise of Benny Goodman in mind, it brings a vein of lyrical sadness together with the verve of mid-century popular idioms from both the USA and Brazil.

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