20 May 2009

The ole licorice stick: three instruments in one.

Set #1 - 8:00am - 9:00am

1. Ludwig van Beethoven: "Là ci darem la mano" Variations from Mozart's Don Giovanni (1796-97)
Trio di Clarone: Sabine Meyer - clarinet, Wolfgang Meyer - clarinet, Reiner Wehle - basset horn
Una voce ... per clarone
Avi-music, 42 6008553 001 4
8:21
(The Lumberjack Song.)

2. Ludwig van Beethoven: Trio in B flat major op.11 (1797-98)
Amici: Joaquin Valdepeñas - clarinet, David Hetherington - cello, Patricia Parr - piano
Summit Records, DCD 151
21'

3. Johannes Brahms: Sonata for Clarinet & Piano in E flat major op.120 no.2 (1894)
Gervase de Peyer - clarinet, Gwenneth Pryor - piano
Brahms: Clarinet Sonatas
Chandos Records, CHAN 8563
20:48
(Brahms' last chamber composition, an Austro-Hungarian sunset.)

Set #2 - 9:00am - 10:00am

4. Aram Khachaturian: Trio (1932)
Riverdale Ensemble: Stephen Fox - clarinet, Daniel Kushner - violin, Ellen Meyer - piano
Riverdale Ensemble: Foliage
Furiant Records, FMDC 4619-2
15:45

5. S.C. Eckhardt-Gramatté: Ruck-Ruck Sonata (1947)
James Mark - clarinet, Penelope Mark - piano
Canadian Music for Clarinet
CMFC99
17:14

6. Joseph Scriven & Charles C. Converse: What a Friend We Have in Jesus (rec. NYC 1990s?)
Eddy Davis - musical director, Woody Allen - clarinet, The New York Jazz Ensemble
The Bunk Project
MusicMasters, 01612-65098-2
6:01

7. Tale Ognenovski: Jazz Composition No.1
4:04

8. Tale Ognenovski: Jazz Composition No.5
6:07

9. Tale Ognenovski: Jazz Composition No.8
2:35

Tracks 7-9
Tale Ognenovski - clarinet, reed pipe, small bagpipe & zurla, Stevan Ognenovski - drum & reed pipe, Kliment Ognenovski - reed pipe, Nikola Ognenovski - reed pipe
Jazz, Macedonian Folk Dances & Classical Music
Independent Records, n.n.
(Zurla = an ill wind no-one blows good, i.e. a pungent double-reed.)

Set #3 - 10:00am - 11:00am

10. Allen Lowe: Dream Sequence (rec. NYC 19 Apr. 1992)
Doc Cheatham - trumpet, David Murray - bass clarinet, Loren Schoenberg - tenor sax, Allen Lowe - alto sax, Paul Austerlitz - bass clarinet, Jeff Fuller - bass, Ray Kaczynski - drums
Mental Strain at Dawn: A Modern Portrait of Louis Armstrong
Stash Records, ST-CD-563
6:01

11. Ralph Burns: Summer Sequence (Parts 1-3) (rec. LA 19 Sep. 1946)
Woody Herman & His Orchestra: Blowin' Up a Storm
Columbia/Legacy, C2K 65646
9'

12. Gerald Finzi: Concerto in C for Clarinet & Strings (1948-49)
James Campbell - clarinet, Simon Streatfeild - conductor, Manitoba Chamber Orchestra
Gerald Finzi: Meditation
CBC Records, SMCD 5204
27:24

13. Albert Franz Doppler & Karl Doppler: Rigoletto-Fantasy
Arranged by Rainer Schottstädt
Trio di Clarone: Sabine Meyer - clarinet, Wolfgang Meyer - basset horn, Reiner Wehle - clarinet; Kalle Randalu - piano
Una voce ... per clarone
Avi-music, 42 6008553 001 4
8:52
(Basset horn is almost as sad as a basset hound.)

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