REINECKE Chamber Music for Clarinet, Horn and Piano
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Composer or Director: Carl (Heinrich Carsten) Reinecke
Genre:
Chamber
Label: Dux Recordings
Magazine Review Date: 01/2017
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 53
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: DUX1219
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
Fantasy Pieces |
Carl (Heinrich Carsten) Reinecke, Composer
Carl (Heinrich Carsten) Reinecke, Composer Joanna Domanska, Piano Roman Widaszek, Clarinet |
Nocturne |
Carl (Heinrich Carsten) Reinecke, Composer
Carl (Heinrich Carsten) Reinecke, Composer Joanna Domanska, Piano Tadeusz Tomaszewski, Horn |
Introduction and Allegro appassionato |
Carl (Heinrich Carsten) Reinecke, Composer
Carl (Heinrich Carsten) Reinecke, Composer Joanna Domanska, Piano Roman Widaszek, Clarinet |
Trio |
Carl (Heinrich Carsten) Reinecke, Composer
Carl (Heinrich Carsten) Reinecke, Composer Joanna Domanska, Piano Roman Widaszek, Clarinet Tadeusz Tomaszewski, Horn |
Author: Andrew Mellor
Reinecke’s love for wind and brass sonorities shines through all four of these delightful works. In the Fantasy Pieces for clarinet and piano might be seen Reinecke’s musical world-view: direct, attractive melodies with a sense of folk-like joy that are strong enough to disguise any formal machinations (as in the final Canon).
Reinecke’s music has a wonderful tendency to glow like Brahms’s and Humperdinck’s (both his juniors) but, as the informative booklet points out, a work such as the Nocturne in E flat for horn and piano looks back to Chopin in its clarity. The Introduction and Allegro appassionato for clarinet and piano is a stormy, changeable piece but the shifts in texture always convince.
The main course here is the quasi-symphonic Trio in B flat for clarinet, horn and piano. This is an imposing canvas whose driving unisons break out into entwined rhapsody. These Polish musicians from the Katowice Radio Symphony Orchestra listen intently to each other in all four works; in the final movement of the Trio they lean into all the curves, peaks, troughs and tumbles of Reinecke’s musical roller coaster. So it’s a shame – though not a prohibitive one – that the work’s ending is inexplicably weak.
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