Wilfried Gottwald - Klarinetten-Facetten (2012)

Tracklist

01. Clarinet Concerto in a major, K. 622 (arr. M. Salamon for clarinet and string quintet): I. Allegro
02. Clarinet Concerto in a major, K. 622 (arr. M. Salamon for clarinet and string quintet): II. Adagio
03. Clarinet Concerto in a major, K. 622 (arr. M. Salamon for clarinet and string quintet): III. Rondo: Allegro
04. Clarinet Sonata, FP 184: I. Allegro tristamente: Allegretto - Tres calme - Tempo allegretto
05. Clarinet Sonata, FP 184: II. Romanza: Tres calme
06. Clarinet Sonata, FP 184: III. Allegro con fuoco: Tres anime
07. Jazz Variations on a theme by Paganini
08. Ballad
09. Jazz Etude



With this recording, the versatile Autrian clarinetist Wilfried Gottwald traces a wide arc from W. A. Mozart up to jazz. The Clarinet Concerto in A major KV 622 is here presented for the first time in an arrangement for clarinet and string quartet. Besides this classic of the clarinet repertoire, you can also hear the Sonata for Clarinet and Piano, a late work by Francis Poulenc, whose world premiere by the exceptionally gifted jazz clarinetist and Leonard Bernstein almost provides this CD with a programmatic pointer. In classical jazz trio instrumentation, i.e. together with piano and double bass, Wilfried Gottwald, a long-standing member of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra impressively shows with Mike Garson's Jazz Variations on a Theme of Paganini, his Ballad and the Jazz Etude that this genre is often closer to classical music than imagined and that he feels equally at home in both.

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