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…the young Swede Martin Fröst plays with elegant phrasing and beautiful, even produced tone… In the two sonatas, he's perfectly matched by his compatriot Roland Pöntinen in performances which... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2006, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 28th Nov 2005
Catalogue No: BISSACD1353
Label: BIS
Length: 67 minutes

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Brahms: Clarinet Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 120 No. 1

Work length22:06

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Martin Fröst, Roland Pöntinen
Recorded: June 2004
Recording Venue: Nybrokajen 11, Stockholm, Sweden

I. Allegro appassionato

Track length7:42

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II. Andante un poco Adagio

Track length4:57

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III. Allegretto grazioso

Track length4:13

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IV. Vivace

Track length5:14

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Brahms: Clarinet Sonata No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 120 No. 2

Work length19:59

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Martin Fröst, Roland Pöntinen
Recorded: June 2004
Recording Venue: Nybrokajen 11, Stockholm, Sweden

I. Allegro amabile

Track length8:03

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II. Allegro appassionato

Track length4:58

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III. Andante con moto -

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III. Allegro

Track length2:05

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Brahms: Clarinet Trio in A minor, Op. 114

Work length25:04

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Martin Fröst, Torleif Thedéen, Roland Pöntinen
Recorded: June 2004
Recording Venue: Nybrokajen 11, Stockholm, Sweden

I. Allegro

Track length7:55

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II. Adagio

Track length7:45

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III. Andantino grazioso

Track length4:27

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IV. Allegro

Track length4:57

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February 2006

…the young Swede Martin Fröst plays with elegant phrasing and beautiful, even produced tone… In the two sonatas, he's perfectly matched by his compatriot Roland Pöntinen in performances which capture Brahms's serious, autumnal mood without undue heaviness... cellist Torleif Thedéen proves as adept as his colleagues in producing singing tone and velvet pianissimos, and equally sympathetic to the ageing Brahms's elusive blend of resigned melancholy and abiding generosity of invention.

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The Trio tends to be the neglected one among the great clarinet works from Brahms's mellow last period, usually coupled with the Clarinet Quintet as though a poor relation.
That is grossly unfair to a work which, while maybe not on such a grand scale as the Quintet, has over its four compact movements both profundity and charm. BIS, however, has put it with the sonatas, works on a scale closer to the Trio, and an excellent and successful coupling it is.
Young Swedish clarinettist Martin Fröst has established himself as a leading soloist, appearing with many of the most important European orchestras and inspiring works from composers including Penderecki. He tends to favour speeds on the fast side in the Trio, which means that the second movement Andante may lack the meditative depth one finds elsewhere but which has an easy flow. The dramatic bite and thrust of the outer movements is enhanced by relatively urgent speeds, with the coda of the first fading away on a ghostly scalic passage.
Cellist Torleif Thedéen matches Fröst in imaginative playing but pianist Roland Pöntinen, placed backward in the recording balance, is less individual. None the less this is a generously filled CDs and the couplings are apt.

April 2006

Young Swedish clarinettist Martin Fröst has established himself as a leading soloist, appearing with many of the most important European orchestras and inspiring works from composers including Penderecki. He tends to favour speeds on the fast side in the Trio, which means that the second movement Andante may lack the meditative depth one finds with Thea King on Hyperion but which has an easy flow. The dramatic bite and thrust of the outer movements is enhanced by relatively urgent speeds, with the coda of the first fading away on a ghostly scalic passage.

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