STAMITZ: Clarinet Concertos

Nicolaus Esterhazy Sinfonia;
Berkes, Kálmán

8.554339

Stamitz's early experience of the clarinet was consolidated further through his friendship with the great Bohemian clarinet virtuoso Johann Joseph Beer (1744-1811) whom he met in Paris. Their professional association, similar in many ways to that of Mozart and Stadler, resulted not only in a number of joint performances at the Concerts spirituels but also in a succession of concertos and chamber works which were composed for Beer's use Beer's performance of one of Carl Stamitz's clarinet concertos on 24th December, 1771 is the first documented performance of a clarinet concerto in Paris. While Beer's unrivalled technical command of the five-keyed clarinet undoubtedly influenced the way in which Stamitz wrote for it, certain idiomatic devices such as exaggerated intervallic leaps and broken-chord passage work can be found in the works of pioneering figures such as Pokorny. Their overall musical quality, however, owes far less to the virtuosity of the solo writing than to Stamitz's elegant melodic style, structural subtlety and orchestral flair.

CD

Muzyka klasyczna

Naxos

05-07-1999

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