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The clarinetist Martin Fröst, after a series of recordings of modern-ish Nordic and Germanic clarinet repertory on the Swedish label BIS, gets a larger mouthpiece here with a release on the major Sony Classical label. Fröst's playing has never been better: he excels in both tough, angular lines and slow cantabile, and both are applied here to a wide variety of material. Three of Schumann's Five Pieces in Folk Style, Op. 102, are made into a little sonata here, and sampling any one of them (tracks 7-9) will show you how compelling Fröst can make only moderately interesting music. Like those pieces, most of the music is arranged from music in media other than clarinet and orchestra. It circles around the theme of folk "roots" in classical music, with some very colorful treatments of traditional music as well as Bartók and a range of other pieces from Telemann to Piazzolla (an especially successful arrangement that sticks close to the original La muerte del Angel) and contemporary music. The range is very wide, and Fröst holds it together impressively. A couple of traditional pieces are given a gauzy choral backing; Fröst may have felt that such a crossover gesture was necessary in a major-label environment, but in this cast it detracts from a tightly constructed musical argument that could have stood better on its own. On balance, however, this will be a fine introduction for many listeners to one of the great instrumentalists of the present day.
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Hildegard Von Bingen, Composer - Martin Frost, Clarinet, MainArtist - Adolf Fredriks Flickkör, Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Hans Kipfer, Producer - Thore Brinkmann, Recording Engineer
(P) 2015 Sony Music Entertainment
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Georg Philipp Telemann, Composer - Martin Frost, Clarinet, MainArtist - Hans Kipfer, Producer - Thore Brinkmann, Recording Engineer
(P) 2015 Sony Music Entertainment
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Goran Frost, Composer - Martin Frost, Clarinet, MainArtist - Hans Kipfer, Producer - Thore Brinkmann, Recording Engineer
(P) 2015 Sony Music Entertainment
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Traditional, Composer - Hans Ek, Arranger - Martin Frost, Clarinet, MainArtist - Adolf Fredriks Flickkör, AssociatedPerformer - Hans Kipfer, Producer - Thore Brinkmann, Recording Engineer
(P) 2015 Sony Music Entertainment
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Bernhard Henrik Crusell, Composer - Martin Frost, Clarinet, MainArtist - Hans Kipfer, Producer - Thore Brinkmann, Recording Engineer
(P) 2015 Sony Music Entertainment
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Johannes Brahms, Composer - Martin Frost, Clarinet, MainArtist - Hans Kipfer, Producer - Thore Brinkmann, Recording Engineer - Olof Wendel, AssociatedPerformer
(P) 2015 Sony Music Entertainment
5 Stücke im Volkston, Op. 102 (Robert Schumann)
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Robert Schumann, Composer - Rolf Martinsson, Arranger - Martin Frost, Clarinet, MainArtist - Hans Kipfer, Producer - Thore Brinkmann, Recording Engineer
(P) 2015 Sony Music Entertainment
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Robert Schumann, Composer - Rolf Martinsson, Arranger - Martin Frost, Clarinet, MainArtist - Hans Kipfer, Producer - Thore Brinkmann, Recording Engineer
(P) 2015 Sony Music Entertainment
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Robert Schumann, Composer - Rolf Martinsson, Arranger - Martin Frost, Clarinet, MainArtist - Hans Kipfer, Producer - Thore Brinkmann, Recording Engineer
(P) 2015 Sony Music Entertainment
Romanian Folk Dances Sz. 56 (Béla Bartók)
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Bela Bartok, Composer - Martin Frost, Clarinet, MainArtist - Hans Kipfer, Producer - Thore Brinkmann, Recording Engineer - Olof Wendel, AssociatedPerformer - Jonas Dominque, Arranger
(P) 2015 Sony Music Entertainment
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Bela Bartok, Composer - Martin Frost, Clarinet, MainArtist - Hans Kipfer, Producer - Thore Brinkmann, Recording Engineer - Olof Wendel, AssociatedPerformer - Jonas Dominque, Arranger
(P) 2015 Sony Music Entertainment
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Bela Bartok, Composer - Martin Frost, Clarinet, MainArtist - Hans Kipfer, Producer - Thore Brinkmann, Recording Engineer - Olof Wendel, AssociatedPerformer - Jonas Dominque, Arranger
(P) 2015 Sony Music Entertainment
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Bela Bartok, Composer - Martin Frost, Clarinet, MainArtist - Hans Kipfer, Producer - Thore Brinkmann, Recording Engineer - Olof Wendel, AssociatedPerformer - Jonas Dominque, Arranger
(P) 2015 Sony Music Entertainment
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Bela Bartok, Composer - Martin Frost, Clarinet, MainArtist - Hans Kipfer, Producer - Thore Brinkmann, Recording Engineer - Olof Wendel, AssociatedPerformer - Jonas Dominque, Arranger
(P) 2015 Sony Music Entertainment
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Manuel De Falla, Composer - Goran Frost, Arranger - Martin Frost, Clarinet, MainArtist - Hans Kipfer, Producer - Thore Brinkmann, Recording Engineer
(P) 2015 Sony Music Entertainment
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Traditional, Composer - Hans Ek, Arranger - Martin Frost, Clarinet, MainArtist - Adolf Fredriks Flickkör, AssociatedPerformer - Hans Kipfer, Producer - Thore Brinkmann, Recording Engineer
(P) 2015 Sony Music Entertainment
Anders Hillborg, Composer - Andrej Power, Violin - Martin Frost, Clarinet, MainArtist - Adolf Fredriks Flickkör, AssociatedPerformer - Hans Kipfer, Producer - Thore Brinkmann, Recording Engineer
(P) 2015 Sony Music Entertainment
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Traditional, Composer - Hans Ek, Arranger - Martin Frost, Clarinet, MainArtist - Hans Kipfer, Producer - Thore Brinkmann, Recording Engineer
(P) 2015 Sony Music Entertainment
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra - Anders Hillborg, Composer - Martin Frost, Clarinet, MainArtist - Adolf Fredriks Flickkör, AssociatedPerformer - Hans Kipfer, Producer - Thore Brinkmann, Recording Engineer
(P) 2015 Sony Music Entertainment
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Astor Piazzolla, Composer - Goran Frost, Arranger - Martin Frost, Clarinet, MainArtist - Hans Kipfer, Producer - Thore Brinkmann, Recording Engineer
(P) 2015 Sony Music Entertainment
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Georgs Pelecis, Composer - Kungliga Filharmonikerna, Orchestra - Martin Frost, Clarinet, MainArtist - Hans Kipfer, Producer - Thore Brinkmann, Recording Engineer
(P) 2015 Sony Music Entertainment
Album review
The clarinetist Martin Fröst, after a series of recordings of modern-ish Nordic and Germanic clarinet repertory on the Swedish label BIS, gets a larger mouthpiece here with a release on the major Sony Classical label. Fröst's playing has never been better: he excels in both tough, angular lines and slow cantabile, and both are applied here to a wide variety of material. Three of Schumann's Five Pieces in Folk Style, Op. 102, are made into a little sonata here, and sampling any one of them (tracks 7-9) will show you how compelling Fröst can make only moderately interesting music. Like those pieces, most of the music is arranged from music in media other than clarinet and orchestra. It circles around the theme of folk "roots" in classical music, with some very colorful treatments of traditional music as well as Bartók and a range of other pieces from Telemann to Piazzolla (an especially successful arrangement that sticks close to the original La muerte del Angel) and contemporary music. The range is very wide, and Fröst holds it together impressively. A couple of traditional pieces are given a gauzy choral backing; Fröst may have felt that such a crossover gesture was necessary in a major-label environment, but in this cast it detracts from a tightly constructed musical argument that could have stood better on its own. On balance, however, this will be a fine introduction for many listeners to one of the great instrumentalists of the present day.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 21 track(s)
- Total length: 01:02:54
- Main artists: Martin Fröst
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Sony Classical
- Genre: Classical
(P) 2015 Sony Music Entertainment
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