Fröst Plays Weber: Clarinet Concertos

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The Swedish clarinettist Martin Fröst plays with admirable virtuosity and smoothness of tone, and it’s hard to imagine the music better performed. — BBC Music Magazine, March 2007, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 27th Nov 2006
Catalogue No: BISSACD1523
Label: BIS
Length: 74 minutes

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Weber: Clarinet Concerto No. 1 in F minor, Op. 73

Work length18:46

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Martin Fröst
Tapiola Sinfonietta
Jean-Jacques Kantorow
Recorded: April 2005
Recording Venue: Tapiola Concert Hall, Finland

I. Allegro

Track length6:50

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II. Adagio ma non troppo

Track length6:16

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III. Rondo. Allegretto

Track length5:40

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Weber: Clarinet Quintet in B flat major, Op. 34, J182

Work length23:23

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Martin Fröst
Tapiola Sinfonietta
Jean-Jacques Kantorow
Recorded: April 2005
Recording Venue: Tapiola Concert Hall, Finland

I. Allegro (Arr. J.-J. Kantorow for clarinet and strings)

Track length7:08

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II. Fantasia. Adagio ma non troppo (Arr. J.-J. Kantorow for clarinet and strings)

Track length5:12

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III. Menuetto. Capriccio presto (Arr. J.-J. Kantorow for clarinet and strings)

Track length4:54

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IV. Rondo. Allegro giocoso (Arr. J.-J. Kantorow for clarinet and strings)

Track length6:09

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Weber: Clarinet Concerto No. 2 in E flat Major, Op. 74

Work length22:05

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Martin Fröst
Tapiola Sinfonietta
Jean-Jacques Kantorow
Recorded: October 2005
Recording Venue: Tapiola Concert Hall, Finland

I. Allegro

Track length8:02

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II. Romanza. Andante

Track length7:27

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III. Alla Polacca

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Weber: Clarinet Concertino in E flat major, Op. 26

Work length9:50

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Martin Fröst
Tapiola Sinfonietta
Jean-Jacques Kantorow
Recorded: October 2005
Recording Venue: Tapiola Concert Hall, Finland

Clarinet Concertino in C Minor / E-Flat Major, Op. 26, J. 109

Track length9:50

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March 2007

The Swedish clarinettist Martin Fröst plays with admirable virtuosity and smoothness of tone, and it’s hard to imagine the music better performed.

2010

Martin Fröst's style of playing is well suited to Weber: he has a clear, fresh tone and fingers undefeated by even the most sensational of the applause music that ends some of these works.
He is not afraid of considerable tempo variations within a movement, as Weber is on record as having wanted.
This all contributes to a charming, eloquent performance of the Concertino. However, the F minor Concerto (No 1) does not need its opening Allegro to be taken quite so fast for it to make its points, and the finale, here sounding like a brisk allegro verging on presto, is actually marked Allegretto, which gives the music more space and freedom. The slow movements of both concertos are played simply, without affectation, and Fröst remembers that the alla polacca of the finale of No 2 is a dance. He takes a bright lead in the Quintet; it is played here as a concerto with full strings, which is a pity but, given the quatuor concertant nature of the work, not as disastrous as it would be with Mozart. This is a fresh, amiable performance that responds to the music's varied nature.
Fröst also plays some cadenzas of his own, rejecting those which were later added by Carl Baermann, son of the much-admired dedicatee of the works, Heinrich Baermann. He further adds a few flourishes: unnecessarily, but there is no need to be too purist here. These are attractive, exhilarating performances, clearly recorded so as to do justice to the orchestral effects which were always part of Weber's exuberant invention.

Classics Today

Fröst just may be the finest clarinetist (sic) alive, and this entire production is typical of what we have come to expect from BIS…There is no more exciting label around today

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