Weber: Complete Chamber Music For Clarinet

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Release Date: 11th Mar 2022
Catalogue No: 95531
Label: Brilliant Classics
Length: 63 minutes

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

Work length27:48

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Davide Bandieri (clarinet)
Quartetto Savinio

I. Allegro

Track length10:31

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II. Fantasia. Adagio ma non troppo

Track length5:34

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III. Menuetto. Capriccio presto

Track length5:31

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IV. Rondo. Allegro giocoso

Track length6:12

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Weber: Variations on a theme from 'Silvana' for clarinet & piano, Op. 33

Work length15:15

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Davide Bandieri (clarinet), Matteo Fossi (piano)

Theme. Andante con moto

Track length1:45

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Più vivo

Track length1:18

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Con grazia

Track length1:10

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Molto adagio, quasi fantasia

Track length3:06

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Variation 4: Animato e con fuoco - Variation 5: Allegro animato

Track length2:43

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Lento

Track length3:05

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Allegro

Track length2:08

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Weber: Grand Duo Concertant for clarinet and piano, Op. 48

Work length20:51

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Davide Bandieri (clarinet), Matteo Fossi (piano)

I. Allegro con fuoco

Track length8:52

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II. Andante con moto

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III. Rondo. Allegro

Track length6:44

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Carl Maria von Weber had a special fondness for the clarinet, finding it the ideal instrument for expressing the profound Romanticism he had made his own.

He borrowed from a youthful composition, his opera Silvana completed at the age of 24, for his Clarinet Variations, op.33. Encouraged by critics to rework the opera’s ‘overly instrumental’ vocal parts, he deleted two arias, but the following year reused the melody of the second of these for his Seven Variations for clarinet and piano, op.33 (1811). He develops the instantly hummable theme with its cheerful dotted rhythm stylishly, imaginatively and virtuosically, showcasing the full extent of the clarinettist’s abilities while also allowing the piano to shine in two of the seven variations. The piece was premiered in Prague at a private residence by Weber and his friend and touring partner Heinrich Bärmann, whom he had met a few months earlier in Darmstadt. The clarinettist Bärmann had instantly won Weber over with his prodigious technique and highly expressive sound.

In 1815, Weber left Prague for Munich to meet with Bärmann, and there he composed the second and third movements of what would become the Grand Duo concertant, op.48, with the addition of an opening movement in November 1816. In this work Weber gets the very best out of two quintessentially Romantic instruments, but – well aware of his own abilities (Weber was an excellent concert pianist, with exceptionally large hands) – he also challenges himself with a demanding piano part, presenting two co-protagonists ‘competing’ enthusiastically with one another through myriad arpeggios, scales and virtuoso passages.

Another piece from 1815, is the Quintet for clarinet and string quartet, op.34, premiered on 26 August at Bärmann’s home. While the first sketches date back to 1811, when Weber first met Bärmann and composed the Concertino, op.26, the two Concertos, opp. 73 & 74, and the aforementioned Seven Variations for him, he would continue working on it in 1812 in Munich and 1813 in Prague, before completing it in Munich in 1815. The work is almost concerto-like, with the strings supporting the clarinet and falling away at just the right moment to allow it to express itself, before returning immediately afterwards, in a refined yet playful dialogue.

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