Utwory na płycie:

• Clarinet Concerto_ Slowly and expressively –
• Clarinet Concerto_ Cadenza (freely) –
• Clarinet Concerto_ Rather fast
• Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra - Allegretto un poco –
• Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra - Poco adagio –
• Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra - Allegro non troppo –
• Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra - Allegro vivace
• Tuireadh

Aaron Copland:
Concerto for Clarinet and String Orchestra, with Harp and Piano

Carl Nielsen:
Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra

James MacMillan:
Tuireadh

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.

James MacMillan’s Tuireadh, meanwhile, is a singleminded outpouring of grief, raising instruments to an almost vocal quality of expression in a lament for the victims of the Piper Alpha oil-rig fire. Clarinettist Maximiliano Martín – an internationally active soloist as well as principal clarinet of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra – is joined here by the symphony orchestra of his native Tenerife in three works which truly cover the gamut of human emotion.

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Recorded on 21-24 January 2020 in the Auditorio de Tenerife Adán Martín, Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Maximiliano Martín is a Buffet Crampon Performing Artist and plays with Buffet Tosca clarinets.