Origines & Départs: French Music for Clarinet and Piano

Featuring

Maximiliano Martín
Scott Mitchell
Camille Saint-Saëns
Ernest Chausson
Francis Poulenc
Edward McGuire

Gustavo Trujillo Delgado
Gabriel Henri Constant Pierné
Philippe Gaubert
Claude Debussy
Arthur Honegger

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Recording & Production

This album features two premiere recordings: Eddie McGuire's Elegiac Waltz and Gustavo Trujillo's Souvenir.

Performer Biography

Maximiliano Martín, the clarinetist on this album, is the Principal Clarinet of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and an Honorary Professor of Woodwind at the University of St Andrews.

Composition History

Francis Poulenc's Sonata for Clarinet and Piano, one of his last pieces, was commissioned by Benny Goodman, who premiered it with Leonard Bernstein at the piano.

Composition History

Camille Saint-Saëns, appalled by modern music, composed three sonatas for seldom-considered woodwind instruments in the last year of his life, including the Clarinet Sonata in E flat major.

Composer Biography

Francis Poulenc, a member of the Groupe des Six, described himself as both 'moine et voyou' (monk and hooligan), reflecting the duality of seriousness and lightness in his music.

Composition History

Ernest Chausson's Andante et Allegro is an early work from 1881, written while he was a student at the Paris Conservatoire, having previously abandoned a career in law.

Composition History

Claude Debussy's Petite pièce was originally composed in 1910 as a sight-reading test piece for the Paris Conservatoire's annual woodwind competition.