Brahms-Glanert: Four Serious Songs

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[Glanert's arrangement] manages to be teasing and stirring at the same time...Kriikku's playing is a delight. — BBC Music Magazine, April 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 13th Jan 2017
Catalogue No: ODE1263-2
Label: Ondine
Length: 59 minutes

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Glanert: 4 Präludien und Ernste Gesänge (After J. Brahms' 4 Serious Songs, Op. 121)

Work length24:40

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Michael Nagy
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
Olari Elts

No. 1, Prelude. Agitato

Track length2:05

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No. 1, Denn es gehet dem Menschen [for That which befalleth the sons of men]

Track length4:15

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No. 2, Prelude. Andante

Track length1:49

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No. 2, Ich wandte mich [so I returned]

Track length3:32

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No. 3, Prelude. Quasi allegretto

Track length1:35

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No. 3, O Tod, wie bitter bist du [O Death, how bitter Is the remembrance of thee]

Track length3:08

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No. 4, Prelude. Adagio

Track length2:03

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No. 4, Wenn ich mit Menschen- und mit Engelszungen redete [Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels]

Track length4:02

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Postlude. Andante

Track length2:11

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Glanert: Weites Land

Work length11:43

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Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
Olari Elts

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

Work length22:41

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Kari Kriikku
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
Olari Elts

I. Allegro appassionato

Track length8:04

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II. Andante un poco adagio

Track length5:45

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III. Allegretto grazioso

Track length3:43

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IV. Vivace

Track length5:09

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This recording includes a fascinating program: Luciano Berio's iconic adaptation of Johannes Brahms' Clarinet Sonata No. 1 combined with Detlev Glanert's recent arrangement of Brahms' late vocal masterpiece, Four Serious Songs. Also included is Glanert's new orchestral work Weites Land written in the spirit of Brahms. This disc includes as its soloists award-winning clarinetist Kari Kriikku and German baritone Michael Nagy. This is the second release of Estonian conductor Olari Elts together with the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra. Detlev Glanert was, like Brahms, born in Hamburg. A pupil of Diether de la Motte and Hans Werner Henze, Glanert has long felt a deep connection with Brahms' music through "a specific North German tradition, in which I believe myself to be connected with Brahms, to do with a melancholy in his pieces, with a certain severity." Luciano Berio was commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra in 1986 to provide an orchestral version of the first of the two late sonatas Brahms composed in 1894, two years prior to the Serious Songs. Berio created a 25-minute concerto, although retaining the designation "Sonata". Berio's treatment of Brahms' was highly respectful and straightforward and the solo part is almost identical with the original sonata.

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April 2017

[Glanert's arrangement] manages to be teasing and stirring at the same time...Kriikku's playing is a delight.

March 2017

Glanert knows his Brahms

26th January 2017

Detlev Glanert’s affinity with Brahms crystallised to extraordinary effect in his masterly 2005 version of the great composer’s Four Serious Songs...Brahms’s vocal lines are given a powerful, burnished-sounding performance here by baritone Michael Nagy. Glanert’s orchestration is dark, intriguing and entirely idiomatic.

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