Oehms Classics
French Clarinet Rhapsody
$11.99
Details
- Composer
- DEBUSSY POULENC HONEGGER SC
- Artist
- Perl, Manno
- Format
- CD
- Label
- Oehms Classics
- Released
- Apr 27, 2010
- Catalog #
- OC114
- UPC
- 4260034861145
About
"This is a convenient recital, presenting—unusually, it turns out, in a single program—the clarinet-and-piano works of Debussy and his contemporary Florent Schmitt, plus those of the demi-Six Honegger, Milhaud, and Poulenc (the other three were Auric, Durey, and Tailleferre), who were more or less a generation younger. Despite a name that sounds as German as, say, “John Barbirolli,” clarinetist Ralph Manno is a native German, making the program all the more atypical. This disc follows soon after Oehms’s release of a two-CD set featuring Manno and Alfredo Perl in music of Brahms; both that and the present disc, however, turn out to be reissues of 1995 recordings.
Manno’s performance of Debussy’s Rhapsodie (there never was a deuxième) is languorous at first, then fluid and dynamic as the music demands. His sound, appropriately international rather than characteristically German, is attractive and well focused, and his technique and control are impressive. The aptly named Petite pièce, written as a sight-reading exercise, is smooth and expressive.
The Lorraine-born Florent Schmitt (1870–1958) should be better known; he is remembered today mostly for the extravagant, almost expressionistic La Tragédie de Salomé. The present Andantino, by contrast, is brief, modest, and perhaps even a bit sentimental...
If the composers who made up Les Six had any musical trait in common (and Milhaud, for one, denied that they did), it is a quintessentially French irreverence, even impudence. (Two of the movements of Milhaud’s sonatine are marked Très rude.) The Honegger and Milhaud sonatines were both composed in the 1920s; the former is an aphoristic work in three movements lasting only six minutes all together; Manno plays with impressive command here... The late, folksy Duo Concertant is an attractive example of Milhaud’s Provençal style; the slight Caprice, running under two minutes, serves as a sort of encore...this disc can be recommended for its overview of the core French clarinet recital repertoire."
FANFARE: Richard A. Kaplan
Manno’s performance of Debussy’s Rhapsodie (there never was a deuxième) is languorous at first, then fluid and dynamic as the music demands. His sound, appropriately international rather than characteristically German, is attractive and well focused, and his technique and control are impressive. The aptly named Petite pièce, written as a sight-reading exercise, is smooth and expressive.
The Lorraine-born Florent Schmitt (1870–1958) should be better known; he is remembered today mostly for the extravagant, almost expressionistic La Tragédie de Salomé. The present Andantino, by contrast, is brief, modest, and perhaps even a bit sentimental...
If the composers who made up Les Six had any musical trait in common (and Milhaud, for one, denied that they did), it is a quintessentially French irreverence, even impudence. (Two of the movements of Milhaud’s sonatine are marked Très rude.) The Honegger and Milhaud sonatines were both composed in the 1920s; the former is an aphoristic work in three movements lasting only six minutes all together; Manno plays with impressive command here... The late, folksy Duo Concertant is an attractive example of Milhaud’s Provençal style; the slight Caprice, running under two minutes, serves as a sort of encore...this disc can be recommended for its overview of the core French clarinet recital repertoire."
FANFARE: Richard A. Kaplan
Tracklist 14 tracks
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1 Premiere rapsodie 09:09
- Track
- 1
- Title
- Premiere rapsodie
- Duration
- 09:09
- Composer
- Claude Debussy
- Performer
- Ralph Manno, Alfredo Perl
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2 Petite Piece 01:45
- Track
- 2
- Title
- Petite Piece
- Duration
- 01:45
- Composer
- Claude Debussy
- Performer
- Ralph Manno, Alfredo Perl
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3 I. Allegro tristemente: Allegretto - tres calme - tempo allegretto 05:46
- Track
- 3
- Title
- I. Allegro tristemente: Allegretto - tres calme - tempo allegretto
- Duration
- 05:46
- Composer
- Francis Poulenc
- Performer
- Ralph Manno, Alfredo Perl
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4 II. Romanza: Tres calme 04:55
- Track
- 4
- Title
- II. Romanza: Tres calme
- Duration
- 04:55
- Composer
- Francis Poulenc
- Performer
- Ralph Manno, Alfredo Perl
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5 III. Allegro con fuoco: Tres anime 02:57
- Track
- 5
- Title
- III. Allegro con fuoco: Tres anime
- Duration
- 02:57
- Composer
- Francis Poulenc
- Performer
- Ralph Manno, Alfredo Perl
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6 I. Modéré 02:22
- Track
- 6
- Title
- I. Modéré
- Duration
- 02:22
- Composer
- Arthur Honegger
- Performer
- Ralph Manno, Alfredo Perl
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7 II. Lent et soutenu 02:29
- Track
- 7
- Title
- II. Lent et soutenu
- Duration
- 02:29
- Composer
- Arthur Honegger
- Performer
- Ralph Manno, Alfredo Perl
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8 III. Vif et rythmique 01:02
- Track
- 8
- Title
- III. Vif et rythmique
- Duration
- 01:02
- Composer
- Arthur Honegger
- Performer
- Ralph Manno, Alfredo Perl
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9 Andantino, Op. 30, No. 1 03:38
- Track
- 9
- Title
- Andantino, Op. 30, No. 1
- Duration
- 03:38
- Composer
- Florent Schmitt
- Performer
- Ralph Manno, Alfredo Perl
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10 I. Tres rude 03:20
- Track
- 10
- Title
- I. Tres rude
- Duration
- 03:20
- Composer
- Darius Milhaud
- Performer
- Ralph Manno, Alfredo Perl
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11 II. Lent 04:06
- Track
- 11
- Title
- II. Lent
- Duration
- 04:06
- Composer
- Darius Milhaud
- Performer
- Ralph Manno, Alfredo Perl
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12 III. Tres rude 02:21
- Track
- 12
- Title
- III. Tres rude
- Duration
- 02:21
- Composer
- Darius Milhaud
- Performer
- Ralph Manno, Alfredo Perl
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13 Duo concertante, Op. 351 05:55
- Track
- 13
- Title
- Duo concertante, Op. 351
- Duration
- 05:55
- Composer
- Darius Milhaud
- Performer
- Ralph Manno, Alfredo Perl
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14 Caprice, Op. 335 01:57
- Track
- 14
- Title
- Caprice, Op. 335
- Duration
- 01:57
- Composer
- Darius Milhaud
- Performer
- Ralph Manno, Alfredo Perl