Spohr: The Complete Works for Clarinet & Orchestra

Gaudenz, Simon, NDR Radiophilharmonie, Sundqvist, Christoffer

CPO 555 151-2

Spohr's complete oeuvre for clarinet and orchestra

The Finnish artist Christoffer Sundqvist is one of the leading clarinetists of his generation, and we are very happy to have won him for our complete edition of Louis Spohr's works for clarinet and orchestra (partly first recordings!). Not only the extremely brilliant and masterful four clarinet concertos can be heard, but also all the other works for clarinet and orchestra, composed at that time for the virtuoso Johann Simon Hermstedt. When Hermstedt played Spohr's potpourri on themes from Winter's opera "Das unterbrochene Opferfest" op. 80 in Leipzig on October 13, 1812, the Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung commented: "The potpourri for clarinet was not only very happily composed from ideas of the sacrificial feast, but these ideas were also mostly quite excellently processed; and so it would like to stand at the top among the works of this genre. An indispensable complete edition, not only for clarinetists!

Works:

•Spohr: Clarinet Concerto No. 1 in C minor, Op. 26
•Spohr: Clarinet Concerto No. 2 in E flat, Op. 57
•Spohr: Clarinet Concerto No. 3 in F minor, WoO 19
•Spohr: Clarinet Concerto No. 4 in E minor, WoO 20

CD x 2

CPO

18.01.2023

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