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Fröst & Friends: Martin Fröst Plays Encores

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Details

Composer
AHBEZ, EDEN BACH, JOHANN SEBA
Artist
Roland, Martin, Pontinen, Frost
Format
SACD
Label
BIS
Released
Jun 01, 2010
Catalog #
BIS-SACD-1823
UPC
7318599918235

About

This is a hybrid Super Audio CD playable on both regular and Super Audio CD players.

A calendar filled with orchestral concerts and chamber recitals in many of the world’s most prestigious venues has given the clarinettist Martin Fröst ample opportunity to develop a wide range of encores, for every occasion. Known for the imaginatively themed concert programmes he devises with various musician friends, he has also explored a number of musical genres. These aspects of his artistry are both demonstrated on this constantly engaging disc, which includes immortal gems such as Rachmaninov’s Vocalise and Kreisler’s Liebeslied as well as pieces rather less usual in a classical context: Charlie Chaplin’s Smile and the klezmer traditional Let’s Be Happy rubbing shoulders with an improvisation over the Nat King Cole standard Nature Boy. Throughout the programme Fröst receives the expert support of the pianist Roland Pöntinen, a chamber music partner of long standing who has also been involved in devising many of the imaginative arrangements, for instance of Vittorio Monti’s Csárdás. Three other musical companions of Fröst’s make cameo appearances, with mezzo-soprano Malena Ernman joining the clarinet in the head-long flight of not one, but two bumble-bees. Torleif Thedéen’s cello sings a heartfelt Ave Maria above the gyrating accompaniment of Fröst’s clarinet, while Svante Henryson, also a cellist, plays in his own duo piece Off Pist, in which the clarinet and cello chase each other up and down alpine slopes. Martin Fröst’s spectacular career on disc began in 1995, with one of his first CD reviews, in In Tune Magazine, describing him as ‘A Swedish Clarinet Star’, and continuing ‘Fröst has everything – including genius’. More than 10 discs later his recording of Bernard Crusell’s three clarinet concertos caused the reviewer in French Classica-Répertoire to remark that ‘in every movement his playing hits upon the appropriate elegance, the perfect phrasing, the true colour, the required virtuosity, the necessary playfulness ... as he pursues his musical intentions all the way’ – a description that could equally well be applied to the present disc!.

Tracklist 18 tracks

  1. 1 5 Preludes, Op. 16: No. 1 in B Major (arr. R. Pontinen and M. Frost) 03:15
    Track
    1
    Title
    5 Preludes, Op. 16: No. 1 in B Major (arr. R. Pontinen and M. Frost)
    Duration
    03:15
    Composer
    Alexander Scriabin
    Performer
    Martin Fröst, Roland Pöntinen
  2. 2 Ave Maria (arr. for clarinet and cello) 02:42
    Track
    2
    Title
    Ave Maria (arr. for clarinet and cello)
    Duration
    02:42
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Martin Fröst, Torleif Thedéen
  3. 3 Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Minor, BWV 1001: IV. Presto (arr. for clarinet) 03:22
    Track
    3
    Title
    Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Minor, BWV 1001: IV. Presto (arr. for clarinet)
    Duration
    03:22
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Martin Fröst
  4. 4 5 Lieder, Op. 105: No. 1. Wie Melodien zieht es mir (arr. for clarinet and piano) 02:13
    Track
    4
    Title
    5 Lieder, Op. 105: No. 1. Wie Melodien zieht es mir (arr. for clarinet and piano)
    Duration
    02:13
    Composer
    Johannes Brahms
    Performer
    Martin Fröst, Roland Pöntinen
  5. 5 Let's Be Happy (arr. G. Frost) 03:32
    Track
    5
    Title
    Let's Be Happy (arr. G. Frost)
    Duration
    03:32
    Composer
    Traditional
    Performer
    Martin Fröst, Christian Svarfvar, Asa Thedeen, Göran Fröst, Torleif Thedéen, Svante Henryson
  6. 6 Tale of Tsar Saltan, Op. 57: III. Flight of the Bumblebee (arr. R. Pontinen, M. Frost and M. Ernman) 01:17
    Track
    6
    Title
    Tale of Tsar Saltan, Op. 57: III. Flight of the Bumblebee (arr. R. Pontinen, M. Frost and M. Ernman)
    Duration
    01:17
    Composer
    Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
    Performer
    Martin Fröst, Malena Ernman, Roland Pöntinen
  7. 7 Liebesleid (arr. R. Pontinen and M. Frost) 03:53
    Track
    7
    Title
    Liebesleid (arr. R. Pontinen and M. Frost)
    Duration
    03:53
    Composer
    Fritz Kreisler
    Performer
    Martin Fröst, Roland Pöntinen
  8. 8 Solo de concours 05:51
    Track
    8
    Title
    Solo de concours
    Duration
    05:51
    Composer
    André Messager
    Performer
    Martin Fröst, Roland Pöntinen
  9. 9 14 Songs, Op. 34: No. 14. Vocalise in E Minor (arr. L. Rose) 06:19
    Track
    9
    Title
    14 Songs, Op. 34: No. 14. Vocalise in E Minor (arr. L. Rose)
    Duration
    06:19
    Composer
    Sergei Rachmaninoff
    Performer
    Martin Fröst, Roland Pöntinen
  10. 10 Nocturne No. 2 in E-Flat Major, Op. 9, No. 2 (arr. R. Pontinen and M. Frost) 04:53
    Track
    10
    Title
    Nocturne No. 2 in E-Flat Major, Op. 9, No. 2 (arr. R. Pontinen and M. Frost)
    Duration
    04:53
    Composer
    Frédéric Chopin
    Performer
    Martin Fröst, Roland Pöntinen
  11. 11 5 Lieder und Gesänge, Op. 127: No. 2. Dein Angesicht (arr. for clarinet and piano) 02:32
    Track
    11
    Title
    5 Lieder und Gesänge, Op. 127: No. 2. Dein Angesicht (arr. for clarinet and piano)
    Duration
    02:32
    Composer
    Robert Schumann
    Performer
    Martin Fröst, Roland Pöntinen
  12. 12 Csardas (arr. R. Pontinen and M. Frost) 05:00
    Track
    12
    Title
    Csardas (arr. R. Pontinen and M. Frost)
    Duration
    05:00
    Composer
    Vittorio Monti
    Performer
    Martin Fröst, Roland Pöntinen
  13. 13 Pafagelsogonblick 01:18
    Track
    13
    Title
    Pafagelsogonblick
    Duration
    01:18
    Composer
    Anders Hillborg
    Performer
    Martin Fröst, Roland Pöntinen
  14. 14 Improvisation (after M. Arnold) 02:35
    Track
    14
    Title
    Improvisation (after M. Arnold)
    Duration
    02:35
    Composer
    Martin Fröst
    Performer
    Martin Fröst
  15. 15 Modern Times: Smile (arr. R. Pontinen) 04:16
    Track
    15
    Title
    Modern Times: Smile (arr. R. Pontinen)
    Duration
    04:16
    Composer
    Charlie Chaplin
    Performer
    Martin Fröst, Roland Pöntinen
  16. 16 Brudvals for Karin och Martin 03:13
    Track
    16
    Title
    Brudvals for Karin och Martin
    Duration
    03:13
    Composer
    Göran Fröst
    Performer
    Martin Fröst, Hermann Stefansson, Solve Kingstedt, Asa Thedeen, Christian Svarfvar, Göran Fröst, Torleif Thedéen, Svante Henryson
  17. 17 Off Pist 04:42
    Track
    17
    Title
    Off Pist
    Duration
    04:42
    Composer
    Svante Henryson
    Performer
    Martin Fröst, Svante Henryson
  18. 18 Nature Boy (arr. for clarinet, cello and double bass) 03:10
    Track
    18
    Title
    Nature Boy (arr. for clarinet, cello and double bass)
    Duration
    03:10
    Composer
    Eden Ahbez
    Performer
    Martin Fröst, Torleif Thedéen, Svante Henryson