Composer: Carl Maria Weber
Performer: Arthur Stockel, Quatuor Hanson
Orchestra: Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Leo McFall
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Aparté
Catalogue: AP354
Release: 2025
Size: 1.17 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Clarinet Concerto No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 73
01. I. Allegro
02. II. Adagio ma non troppo
03. III. Rondo. Allegretto
Clarinet Quintet, Op. 34
04. I. Allegro
05. II. Fantasia. Adagio
06. III. Menuetto
07. IV. Rondo. Allegro
Clarinet Concerto No. 2 in E-Flat Major, Op. 74
08. I. Allegro
09. II. Romanza. Allegretto con moto
10. III. Polacca
Weber’s first romantic heroine was undoubtedly the clarinet. Ten years before Max and the ‘Freischütz’, Weber composed his two clarinet concertos and began the Quintet. These three masterpieces he dedicated to the virtuoso Baermann, who substantially reworked the clarinet part of the concertos in his edition, which has now passed into posterity. For his first recording, clarinettist Arthur Stockel returns to the sources of the original scores. More stripped down, the solo part highlights the link between these pieces and the composer’s dramatic imagination. Nurtured by Lieder and opera, Arthur Stockel explores their relationship to vocality and gives his instrument a Weberian role, between ardour, tenderness and pain. He is joined by the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, where he has held the post of principal clarinet since 2019, conductor Leo McFall and the Hanson Quartet, who respond with mischievousness (minuet from the Quintet), ardour and grandeur (First Concerto).
Take a glimpse:
Faust, Melnikov: Weber – Sonatas for Piano & Violin, Piano Quartet (24/96 FLAC)
Müller-Brachmann, Schultsz: Schubert – Schwanengesang; Weber – Frühe Lieder (24/96 FLAC)
Pražák Quartet: Weber – Clarinet Quintet op.34, Grand Duo Concertant op.48, Seven Variations on a Theme from Silvana op.33 (24/96 FLAC)
André Cluytens – The Complete Orchestral & Concerto Mono Recordings 1943-1958 (24/96 FLAC)