IDAGIO | Glanert: 4 Präludien und Ernste Gesänge & Weites Land - Brahms: Clarinet Sonata No. 1 761195126325

Featuring

Olari Elts
Michael Nagy
Kari Kriikku
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
Detlev Glanert
Johannes Brahms

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Compositional Technique

Detlev Glanert's orchestral arrangement of Brahms's Four Serious Songs includes four preludes and a postlude, which quote themes from the songs and set an ominous mood.

Composer Biography

Johannes Brahms, the composer of the original Four Serious Songs and Clarinet Sonata No. 1, made many arrangements of other composers' works throughout his career.

Compositional Technique

Luciano Berio's orchestral arrangement of Brahms's Clarinet Sonata No. 1 is a respectful expansion of the piano part, with the solo clarinet part remaining almost identical to the original.

Performer Biography

Kari Kriikku, the clarinetist on this recording, has premiered the entire clarinet output of Magnus Lindberg and won a Gramophone Award and BBC Music Magazine Award for his recording of Lindberg's Clarinet Concerto.

Composition History

Brahms's Four Serious Songs were composed in 1896, prompted by the debilitating stroke of Clara Schumann, his lifelong object of desire, and his own impending death from cancer.

Composition History

Glanert's orchestral work Weites Land was commissioned by the Oldenburg State Orchestra with the specific requirement that it be written 'with Brahms' Fourth Symphony firmly in view'.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Detlev Glanert, a contemporary German composer, feels a deep connection with Brahms's music through a shared 'North German tradition' characterized by melancholy and severity.