Contemporary music specialist Roger Heaton’s new CD focuses on three important modernist works from the mid-twentieth century. Radulescu’s ground-breaking solo work was written for Heaton in 1983, lasting 28 minutes without a break it explores an incredible soundworld of multiple sonorities based on the harmonic series. The accompanying film by Simon Weir is a performance of the whole piece with the score and explanation and discussion by Roger Heaton.
The CD also includes fascinating notes by the world’s leading Boulez specialist Robert Piencikowski and a chance to see a large full colour page of Boulez’s sketches for Domaines from the Paul Sacher Archive, as a download from the Clarinet Classics website.
The world premiere recording of Horatiu Radulescu’s The Inner Time in its original version for solo clarinet.
Two classics of the contemporary solo clarinet repertory: Boulez’s Domaines and Giacinto Scelsi’s Ixor.
Included on the CD a extraordinary film of the recording of The Inner Time wth discussion and explanation from Roger Heaton.
A facsimile of Boulez’s sketches for Domaines downloadable from the Clarinet Classics website.
CD liner notes by leading Boulez authority Robert Piencikowski.
