Fröst & Friends: Martin Fröst Plays Encores

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BIS
Release Date
June 1, 2010
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      AHBEZ, EDEN BACH, JOHANN SEBA
    • PERFORMER
      Roland, Martin, Pontinen, Frost
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      June 01, 2010
    • UPC
      7318599918235
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BIS-SACD-1823
    • LABEL
      BIS
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Film And TV Music
    Works ⌄

    1. 5 Preludes, Op. 16: No. 1 in B Major (arr. R. Pontinen and M. Frost)

      Composer: Alexander Scriabin

      Performer: Martin Fröst, Roland Pöntinen

    2. Ave Maria (arr. for clarinet and cello)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Martin Fröst, Torleif Thedéen

    3. Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Minor, BWV 1001: IV. Presto (arr. for clarinet)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Martin Fröst

    4. 5 Lieder, Op. 105: No. 1. Wie Melodien zieht es mir (arr. for clarinet and piano)

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Martin Fröst, Roland Pöntinen

    5. Let's Be Happy (arr. G. Frost)

      Composer: Traditional

      Performer: Martin Fröst, Christian Svarfvar, Asa Thedeen, Göran Fröst, Torleif Thedéen, Svante Henryson

    6. Tale of Tsar Saltan, Op. 57: III. Flight of the Bumblebee (arr. R. Pontinen, M. Frost and M. Ernman)

      Composer: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

      Performer: Martin Fröst, Malena Ernman, Roland Pöntinen

    7. Liebesleid (arr. R. Pontinen and M. Frost)

      Composer: Fritz Kreisler

      Performer: Martin Fröst, Roland Pöntinen

    8. Solo de concours

      Composer: André Messager

      Performer: Martin Fröst, Roland Pöntinen

    9. 14 Songs, Op. 34: No. 14. Vocalise in E Minor (arr. L. Rose)

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Performer: Martin Fröst, Roland Pöntinen

    10. Nocturne No. 2 in E-Flat Major, Op. 9, No. 2 (arr. R. Pontinen and M. Frost)

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Martin Fröst, Roland Pöntinen

    11. 5 Lieder und Gesänge, Op. 127: No. 2. Dein Angesicht (arr. for clarinet and piano)

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Martin Fröst, Roland Pöntinen

    12. Csardas (arr. R. Pontinen and M. Frost)

      Composer: Vittorio Monti

      Performer: Martin Fröst, Roland Pöntinen

    13. Pafagelsogonblick

      Composer: Anders Hillborg

      Performer: Martin Fröst, Roland Pöntinen

    14. Improvisation (after M. Arnold)

      Composer: Martin Fröst

      Performer: Martin Fröst

    15. Modern Times: Smile (arr. R. Pontinen)

      Composer: Charlie Chaplin

      Performer: Martin Fröst, Roland Pöntinen

    16. Brudvals for Karin och Martin

      Composer: Göran Fröst

      Performer: Martin Fröst, Hermann Stefansson, Solve Kingstedt, Asa Thedeen, Christian Svarfvar, Göran Fröst, Torleif Thedéen, Svante Henryson

    17. Off Pist

      Composer: Svante Henryson

      Performer: Martin Fröst, Svante Henryson

    18. Nature Boy (arr. for clarinet, cello and double bass)

      Composer: Eden Ahbez

      Performer: Martin Fröst, Torleif Thedéen, Svante Henryson


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!.