Bruch: Double Concerto for Clarinet, Viola and Orchestra, Op. 88

Max Bruch (1838-1920) enjoyed a long, successful and fruitful career as a composer and conductor, holding several important posts in Germany. His musical language is firmly rooted in the German Romantic Tradition of Schumann and Brahms, as opposed to the “New Music” of Liszt, Wagner and Mahler.
Bruch wrote his works for clarinet at the end of his musical life, when he actually had declared that his “source of inspiration had dried up”. But the clarinet playing of his son Max Felix inspired him to write two substantial works featuring the clarinet: the beautiful and still neglected Double Concerto for Clarinet, Viola and Orchestra Op. 88 and the substantial “8 Pieces for Clarinet, Viola and Piano” Op. 83, delightful Character Pieces in the style of Schumann’s Märchenerzählungen.
Giovanni Punzi is one of the foremost clarinet players of the young Italian generation. He played in the Mahler Youth Orchestra, the Verbier Festival Orchestra under conductors like Abbado, Gergiev, Muti, Gatti and Nagano. On this recording he plays with the Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra, of which he is principal Clarinetist.
Composer: Max Bruch
Artists: Giovanni Punzi (clarinet), Eva Katrine Dalsgaard (viola), Tanja Zapolski (piano), Copenhagen Philharmonica, Vincenzo Millitarì (conductor)
Ripe and romantic chamber and orchestral music from the Indian summer of Bruch’s career.
The spring of Bruch’s invention was running dry in the first decade of the last century when it was refreshed once more by the sound of the clarinet. Just as the playing of Richard Muhlfeld had inspired Brahms to write his Clarinet Quintet and two sonatas, so Bruch discovered the melodies flowing from his pen once more thanks to his clarinettist son, Max Felix, to write the two works on this new album.
Having composed no chamber music for several decades, he wrote the Eight Pieces for clarinet, viola and piano in 1909. They belong to the genre of character pieces by Schumann such as the eight Fantasiestücke Op.12, though they lean towards reflective introversion. The cycle’s high-point arrives with the fourth piece, a Romanian melody introduced to him by a young and beautiful aristocrat, the Princess zu Wied.
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Tracklist:
Max Bruch:
Double Concerto in E Minor, Op. 88:
00:00 I. Andante con moto
06:56 II. Allegro moderato
12:24 III. Allegro molto
8 Pieces for Clarinet, Viola and Piano, Op. 83:
17:38 I. Andante
21:05 II. Allegro molto
23:37 III. Andante con moto
30:18 IV. Allegro agitato
34:12 V. Rumanische Melodie
38:42 VI. Nachtgesang
44:22 VII. Allegro vivace, ma non troppo
47:54 VIII. Moderato
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