Composer: Louis Spohr
Performer: Christoffer Sundqvist
Orchestra: NDR Radiophilharmonie
Conductor: Simon Gaudenz
Number of Discs: 2
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: CPO
Catalogue: 555151-2
Release: 2023
Size: 720 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
CD 01
Clarinet Concerto No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 26
01. I. Adagio – Allegro
02. II. Adagio
03. III. Rondo. Vivace
Clarinet Concerto No. 2 in E-Flat Major, Op. 57
04. I. Allegro
05. II. Adagio
06. III. Rondo alla polacca
07. Variations on “Alruna” for Clarinet and Orchestra, WoO 15
08. Potpourri for Clarinet and Orchestra, Op. 80
CD 02
01. Fantasia and Variations on a Theme by Danzi, Op. 81
Clarinet Concerto No. 3 in F Minor, WoO 19
02. I. Allegro moderato
03. II. Adagio
04. III. Vivace non troppo
Clarinet Concerto No. 4 in E Minor, WoO 20
05. I. Allegro vivace
06. II. Larghetto
07. III. Rondo al espagnol
The Finnish artist Christoffer Sundqvist is one of the leading clarinetists of his generation, and we are very happy to have won him for our complete edition of Louis Spohr’s works for clarinet and orchestra (partly first recordings!). Not only the extremely brilliant and masterful four clarinet concertos can be heard, but also all the other works for clarinet and orchestra, composed at that time for the virtuoso Johann Simon Hermstedt. When Hermstedt played Spohr’s potpourri on themes from Winter’s opera ‘Das unterbrochene Opferfest’ op. 80 in Leipzig on October 13, 1812, the Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung commented: ‘The potpourri for clarinet was not only very happily composed from ideas of the sacrificial feast, but these ideas were also mostly quite excellently processed; and so it would like to stand at the top among the works of this genre. An indispensable complete edition, not only for clarinetists!
