Composer: Detlev Glanert, Johannes Brahms
Performer: Michael Nagy, Kari Kriikku
Orchestra: Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Olari Elts
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Ondine
Release: 2017
Size: 1.04 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Detlev Glanert:
4 Präludien und Ernste Gesänge (After J. Brahms’ 4 Serious Songs, Op. 121)
01. No. 1. Prelude: Agitato
02. No. 1. Denn es gehet dem Menschen (For that which befalleth the sons of men)
03. No. 2. Prelude: Andante
04. No. 2. Ich wandte mich (So I returned)
05. No. 3. Prelude: Quasi allegretto
06. No. 3. O Tod, wie bitter bist du (O Death, how bitter is the remembrance of thee)
07. No. 4. Prelude: Adagio
08. No. 4. Wenn ich mit Menschen- und mit Engelszungen redete (Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels)
09. Postlude: Andante
10. Weites Land
Johannes Brahms:
Clarinet Sonata . No. 1 in F minor, Op. 120 . No. 1
11. I. Allegro appassionato
12. II. Andante un poco adagio
13. III. Allegretto grazioso
14. IV. Vivace
Recorded: 2014, 2016
Recording Venue: Helsinki Music Centre, Finland
This recording includes a fascinating program: Luciano Berio’s iconic adaptation of Johannes Brahms’ Clarinet Sonata No. 1 combined with Detlev Glanert’s recent arrangement of Brahms’ late vocal masterpiece, Four Serious Songs. Also included is Glanert’s new orchestral work Weites Land written in the spirit of Brahms. This disc includes as its soloists award-winning clarinetist Kari Kriikku and German baritone Michael Nagy. This is the second release of Estonian conductor Olari Elts together with the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra. Detlev Glanert was, like Brahms, born in Hamburg. A pupil of Diether de la Motte and Hans Werner Henze, Glanert has long felt a deep connection with Brahms’ music through “a specific North German tradition, in which I believe myself to be connected with Brahms, to do with a melancholy in his pieces, with a certain severity.” Luciano Berio was commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra in 1986 to provide an orchestral version of the first of the two late sonatas Brahms composed in 1894, two years prior to the Serious Songs. Berio created a 25-minute concerto, although retaining the designation “Sonata”. Berio’s treatment of Brahms’ was highly respectful and straightforward and the solo part is almost identical with the original sonata.