La Clarinette Francaise: Jos Van Immerseel & Lisa Shklyaver

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This truly outstanding CD is not only ideally programmed and superbly played - using a clarinet from 1830 and a Bechstein from 1870 - but most naturally recorded too. Every work here is a small-scale... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2015 More…

Release Date: 16th Mar 2015
Catalogue No: ZZT358
Label: Zigzag
Length: 62 minutes

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Poulenc: Sonata for Clarinet and Piano in B-Flat Major, FP 184

Work length14:57

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Jos van Immerseel, Lisa Shklyaver

I. Allegro tristamente

Track length5:50

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II. Romanza

Track length5:13

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III. Allegro con fuoco

Track length3:54

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Saint-Saëns: Clarinet Sonata in E flat major, Op. 167

Work length16:46

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Jos van Immerseel, Lisa Shklyaver

I. Allegretto

Track length4:18

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II. Allegro animato

Track length2:16

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III. Lento

Track length4:24

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IV. Molto allegro - Allegretto

Track length5:48

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Debussy: Première rhapsodie, L.116

Work length8:43

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Jos van Immerseel, Lisa Shklyaver

Bloch, André: Denneriana

Work length7:10

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Jos van Immerseel, Lisa Shklyaver

Pierné, G: Canzonetta in E-Flat Major, Op. 19

Work length4:13

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Jos van Immerseel, Lisa Shklyaver

Milhaud: Scaramouche, Op. 165

Work length10:31

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Jos van Immerseel, Lisa Shklyaver

I. Vif

Track length3:32

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II. Modéré

Track length4:23

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III. Brazileira

Track length2:36

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'Musical love at first sight’, that is a good description of the meeting of Jos van Immerseel and Lisa Shklyaver. With her sweet tone and fine articulation, the young clarinettist effortlessly won the pianist over. No matter which repertoire they played, it clicked immediately.

The desire to come as close as possible to the sound aesthetic of composers at the time of the first performance of their works, along with the simple pleasure of the sound of period instruments, guide Jos van Immerseel in his approach.

For this recording, offering a panorama of French music for clarinet and piano from the early 20th century, Jos van Immerseel has chosen a Bechstein piano of 1870, and Lisa Schklyaver, a Dolnet Lefevre & Pigis clarinet from 1930.

The recording is doubly precious in that it proposes both the view of one of the finest performers of French music on a variety of remarkable works as well as, in a way, the sonority and poetry of an era.

2015 marks Jos van Immerseel’s 70th birthday, one of Belgium’s most acclaimed musicians. Later in 2015 Jos van Immerseel and Anima Eterna will record and release an album of Janacek and Dvorak.

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June 2015

This truly outstanding CD is not only ideally programmed and superbly played - using a clarinet from 1830 and a Bechstein from 1870 - but most naturally recorded too. Every work here is a small-scale masterpiece and, throughout, this remarkable partnership is as of two artists playing as one

26th April 2015

The highlight is Saint-Saëns’s sonata, one of the very late group that also includes sonatas for oboe and bassoon, a marvellous work. There is light relief in miniatures by Bloch and Pierné, and Lisa Shklyaver blossoms in Milhaud’s famous Scaramouche suite in an arrangement possibly not by the composer that Immerseel has partly rewritten – so it’s more authentic than the original!

La Clarinette Francaise: Jos Van Immerseel & Lisa Shklyaver

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