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musica assoluta, Paavo Järvi, Isabelle Faust, NDR Radiophilharmonie, Christian Tetzlaff, Sharon Kam – Thorsten Encke: A Portrait (Live) (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:10:28 minutes | 618 MB | Genre: Classical
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A Portrait oft he composer Thorsten Encke „When you embark on an artistic project, structural considerations can serve as a spark of inspiration. Like an architect, you roll out a blueprint, jot down a series of notes, and establish a basic framework of interval relations. Then you thoughtfully furnish the interior by relating motifs to one another and assigning them dramatic roles within the musical narrative. All of this is certainly necessary. But then, new ideas take you on detours, unplanned inspiration imposes itself on your thoughts, and the structural spark of inspiration dwindles with each new effort. The work acquires a life of its own; it wants to grow beyond its former limits. As an artist, you have to surrender and try to sense where the journey leads you.
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Sharon Kam, ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra & Gregor Bühl – Weber, Kurpiński & Crusell: Works for Clarinet & Orchestra (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 53:41 minutes | 923 MB | Genre: Classical
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Together with Bernhard Henrik Crusell’s concerto (composed in the same year – 1811 – as Weber’s) and that by the Polish composer Karol Kurpiński (which still remains unknown), this album is a diverse survey of early Romantic-era clarinet concertos.
“After 20 years of recording the Weber concerto with Kurt Masur, I see and feel this piece very differently. I now try to play it more lightly, more ‘Rossini-like’, than the heavier romantic approach I previously adopted”, she explains.
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Sharon Kam – Hindemith: Clarinet Concerto, Clarinet Quartet & Clarinet Sonata (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:05:30 minutes | 558 MBGenre: Classical
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Even if some people still consider him “too modern” today, Hanau-born Hesse Paul Hindemith is undoubtedly one of the most influential German composers of the generation after Richard Strauss. Few of his immediate colleagues have found their way into the international repertoire to the same extent that he has, or influenced subsequent generations through comparably extensive educational work. All three works for clarinet featured on this recording date from years of extensive travel: the Quartet for Clarinet, Violin, Cello, and Piano was written in 1938 around the time of his emigration to Switzerland, the Sonata for Clarinet and Piano in 1939 during the course of the tours of the USA that immediately followed the emigration, and finally, the Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra in 1947 (written for and premiered by Benny Goodman) when Hindemith left his American exile to visit Europe again for the first time after the Second World War.
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