Eduard Brunner
Swiss-German clarinetist Eduard Brunner was notable for collaborations with top-quality chamber groups, for adventurous recordings, and perhaps especially for his commitment to contemporary music. Born in Basel, Switzerland, in 1939, he studied with pioneering French clarinetist Louis Cahuzac in Paris until Cahuzac's death in a motorcycle crash. The fundamentals of his professional life were common enough in pattern: he spent many years as first clarinetist of the Bavarian Radio Symphony during the conductorship of Rafael Kubelik, later moving on to a professorship at the Hochschüle für Musik in the west German city of Saarbrücken. Along the way came rounds of the top European festivals and master classes at the likes of the Marlboro Music Festival in the U.S. state of Vermont. Brunner commissioned many of the contemporary standards of clarinet music, including concertos by Edison Denisov, Jean Françaix, Ernest Bloch, and Cristóbal Halffter, but he was also an enthusiastic exponent of clarinet standards by the likes of Spohr, Weber, and Stamitz. His recordings, more than 250 in number, appeared on a variety of labels, with a concentration of them appearing on the avant-garde jazz/classical German label ECM. Perhaps most characteristic were Brunner's chamber music collaborations, in which he often joined with critically acclaimed artists of a somewhat intellectual cast: Alfred Brendel, the Végh Quartet, and Yuri Bashmet. In 2007 Brunner issued a disc of contemporary Swiss clarinet music on the small Musiques Suisses label; the disc included an interview with Brunner by Max Nyffeler. Remaining active as he neared his eighth decade, Brunner followed that up with one of several recordings he made of wind chamber music by German composer Harald Genzmer. Brunner died in Munich at the age of 77 in 2017.
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Mozart / Weber: Clarinet Quintets
Eduard Brunner, Hagen Quartett
Klassiek - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on 11 nov. 1987
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Kurtág, Schumann: Hommage à R. Sch.
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Stravinsky, Boulez, Stockhausen: Dal Niente
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Lachenmann: Allegro Sostenuto - Pression - Intérieur III - Intérieur I (Digitally Remastered)
Walter Grimmer, Johannes Beer, Eduard Brunner, Massimiliano Damerini
Kamermuziek - Released by EMG Classical on 18 jan. 2011
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Mozart & Weber Clarinet Quintets
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Klassiek - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on 11 nov. 1987
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Danzi: Music for Clarinet & Orchestra
Klassiek - Released by Tudor on 4 sep. 2015
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Danzi, Stamitz & Rossini: Music for Flute, Clarinet & Orchestra
Christiane Nicolet, Eduard Brunner, Aurèle Nicolet, Württembergisches Kammerorchester, Jörg Faerber
Klassiek - Released by Tudor on 1 jan. 1984
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Stamitz: Clarinet Concertos
Eduard Brunner, Ana Chumachenco, Münchener Kammerorchester, Klaus Thunemann, Hans Stadlmair
Klassiek - Released by Tudor on 7 okt. 2014
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Lefèvre: Clarinet Quartets and Sonatas (Jean Xavier Lefevre)
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Beethoven: Piano Trio, Op. 11 "Gassenhauer" & 3 Duets for Clarinet & Bassoon, WoO 27
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Danzi & Stamitz: Music for Clarinet, Bassoon & Orchestra
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Klassiek - Released by Tudor on 21 apr. 2017
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Il carnevale di Venezia
Eduard Brunner, Münchener Kammerorchester, Hans Stadlmair
Klassiek - Released by Tudor on 1 jun. 2018
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Lefevre, J.X.: Clarinet Concertos Nos. 3, 4 and 6
Eduard Brunner, Münchener Kammerorchester, Reinhard Goebel
Concertmuziek - Released by Tudor on 1 jan. 2002
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KROMMER, F.: Clarinet Quartets, Opp. 21, 82, 83 (Brunner, Amati Quartet) (Franz Krommer)
Klassiek - Released by Tudor on 1 jan. 2000
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Hummel, J.N.: Variations in F Major, Op. 102 / Krommer, F.: Clarinet Concerto, Op. 36 / Eybler, J.: Clarinet Concerto in B Flat Major (Franz Krommer - Johann Nepomuk Hummel - Joseph Eybler)
Klassiek - Released by Tudor on 1 jan. 1993
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Clarinet Sonatas
Eduard Brunner, Maria Bergmann
Kamermuziek - Released by SWR Mediaservices GmbH on 1 mei 2016
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Stamitz: Clarinet Concertos, Vol. 2
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Klassiek - Released by Tudor on 7 okt. 2014
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Hosokawa: Metamorphosis, Re-turning & Ferne Landschaft III
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Klassiek - Released by Stradivarius on 30 nov. 2011
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Stamitz, Hoffmeister & Pokorný: Clarinet Concertos
Eduard Brunner, Münchener Kammerorchester, Hans Stadlmair
Klassiek - Released by Tudor on 1 jan. 2001
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Spohr: Clarinet Concertos Nos. 3 and 4 & Potpourri, Op. 80
Bamberger Symphoniker, Eduard Brunner, Hans Stadlmair
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Spohr: Clarinet Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
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Klassiek - Released by Tudor on 7 feb. 2017
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