Clarinette: Bartok, Debussy, Poulenc, Messaien

On this CD:

1. Contrasts, three pieces for clarinet, violin, & piano, Sz. 111, BB 116
Composed by Bela Bartok


2. Rhapsodie for clarinet & piano (or orchestra), L. 116
Composed by Claude Debussy


3. Sonata for clarinet & piano, FP 184
Composed by Francis Poulenc


4. Quatuor pour la fin du temps, for violin, cello, clarinet, & piano, I/22 Abime des oiseaux
Composed by Olivier Messiaen


Clarinette: Bartok, Debussy, Poulenc, Messaien, Music, Gilles Leyronnas, Francine Tracier, J-M Golse, Chamber Music & Recitals, Classical, Classical Music
Discover Music of the 20th Century
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • excellent overview of contemporaneous classic music
  • For the price you can't lose
Discover Music of the 20th Century

Manufacturer: Naxos
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000B6N6B8
Release Date: 2005-11-01

Tracks:

  1. Prelude A L'Apres-Midi D'un Faune - Alexander Rahbari
  2. Walzer - Peter Hill
  3. I. Andante-Scherzo - Rebecca Hirsch
  4. Sehr Ruhig Und Zart - Ulster Orchestra
  5. Lebhaft Und Zart Bewegt - Ulster Orchestra
  6. Sehr Langsam Und Ausserst Zart - Ulster Orchestra
  7. Fliessend, Ausserst Zart - Ulster Orchestra
  8. Sehr Fliessend - Ulster Orchestra
  9. Forlane: Allegretto - Klara Kormendi
  10. First Tableau: The Shrove-Tide Fair - Philharmonia Orchestra
  11. The Mountebank - Philharmonia Orchestra
  12. Vivo - Bournemouth Sinfonietta
  13. III. Moderato Pesante - Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
  14. Hymn To St. Cecilia - Choir Of St. John's College, Cambridge
  15. IV. Allegretto - Ondrej Lenard
  16. Introduzione: Andante Non Troppo-Allegro Vivace - Alexander Rahbari

Tracks:

  1. Romance - Czecho-Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra (Kosice)
  2. II. Allegro - Ladislav Slovak
  3. III. Allegro Agitato - Stephen Gunzenhauser
  4. Main Theme From Schindler's List - Paul Bateman
  5. The Unanswered Question - Northern Sinfonia
  6. Second Electonic Interpolation (Conclusion) - Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
  7. Third Electronic Interpolation (Beginning) - Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
  8. I. Liturgie De Cristal - Amici Ensemble
  9. IV. Commentaire - Idil Biret
  10. Warming Up, Leading To Model 1, Bass - Gregory Rose
  11. 'Gott Nochmal' Sun God - Gregory Rose
  12. 'Vishnu' God Of Storms - Gregory Rose
  13. God Of The Earth - Gregory Rose
  14. First Interlude - Boris Berman
  15. I. - Roger Heaton
  16. Short Ride In A Fast Machine - Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
  17. The Lord's Prayer - Choir Of St. John's College, Cambridge
  18. II. Lento E Largo-Tranquillissimo - Zofia Kilanowicz
  19. Lullaby - Philharmonia Orchestra
  20. Vision Of The Hunt I - Philharmonia Orchestra
  21. Voice For Solo Flute - Robert Aitken

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars excellent overview of contemporaneous classic music.......2007-03-22

excellent overview of contemporaneous classic music.

Should be continued, plenty more 20th-century composers to be discovered.

5 out of 5 stars For the price you can't lose.......2007-02-21

This 2 cd set consists of, as the title indicates, various 20c pieces or movements from the Naxos catalog. Sound quality is uniformly high, although for some such as Stockhausen's it's not clear if that's good or bad. What is excellent is the variety of the collection--some familiar (Debussy), others not, some pretty, others intentionally weird. Few will find every piece to his or her taste, but many listeners who do not spend much time on 20c music will find something to like. Overall, a great introduction to a period of much off-putting, yes, but also much compelling music.
Pierre Boulez: Artist's Album
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • A fascinating compendium of Boulez' versatility.
Pierre Boulez: Artist's Album

Manufacturer: Polygram Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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PavanesPavanes | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music
GeneralGeneral | Bartók, Béla | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music
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All Works by BerliozAll Works by Berlioz | Berlioz, Hector | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music
All Works by BoulezAll Works by Boulez | Boulez, Pierre | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music
All Works by MahlerAll Works by Mahler | Mahler, Gustav | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music
All Works by MessiaenAll Works by Messiaen | Messiaen, Olivier | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music
Ravel, MauriceRavel, Maurice | ( R ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music
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ASIN: B00004R9F1
Release Date: 2000-03-14

Tracks:

  1. Parsifal: Overture
  2. LULU: Interlude Verwandlungsmusik (Act 1, Scene 2)
  3. LULU: Ragtime: 'Seit ich fur die buhne arbeite' - English Waltz: 'Noch Etwas Bitte'
  4. Iberia (Image pour orchestre no. 2): Le matin d'un jour de fete
  5. The Rite Of Spring: Sacrificial Dance
  6. Concerto For Orchestra: Intermezzo interrotto: Allegretto
  7. Raposidie espagnole: Habanera
  8. La Ville d'en haut (For Wind, Brass, Piano and Percussion)
  9. Symphony No. 7: Scherzo: Schattenhaft - Trio
  10. Moses Und Aron: Erotische Orgie (Act ll)
  11. Symphonie Fantastique Op. 14: Un Bal Valse: Allergro non troppo
  12. Repons: Introduction
  13. Herzgewachse Op. 20: Herzgewachse Op. 20 (For soprano, Celesta, Harmonium and Harp)
  14. Pavane Pour Une Infante Defunte: Lent

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars A fascinating compendium of Boulez' versatility........2000-06-10

Compilations of classical music usually bring a bite-sized, dumbed-down view of the music at hand, but in the case of a musician of the stature and insight of Pierre Boulez, this is a compilation to be applauded. You will hear Boulez' amazing versatility in music from Berlioz to his own masterpiece Repons, with a powerful, unsentimental Parsifal Prelude, a charming, wonderfully grotesque Lulu excerpt, some ferocious, charged Stravinsky, ecstatic Messiaen, and luminous, gorgeous Ravel and Debussy in between. The playing is uniformly outstanding, and one can only hope that a collection like this will spur neophytes on to the riches of Boulez' discography. Highly recommended!
Rückblick Moderne: 20th Century Orchestral Music
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • BUT WHY?
  • Great Recordings
  • A must for lovers of modern music
Rückblick Moderne: 20th Century Orchestral Music

Manufacturer: Col Legno
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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All Works by MessiaenAll Works by Messiaen | Messiaen, Olivier | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music
All Works by NonoAll Works by Nono | Nono, Luigi | ( N ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music
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All Works by ShostakovichAll Works by Shostakovich | Shostakovich, Dmitri | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music
All Works by WebernAll Works by Webern | Webern, Anton von | ( W ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music
All Works by DebussyAll Works by Debussy | Debussy, Claude | ( D ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music
All Works by GlassAll Works by Glass | Glass, Philip | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music
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GeneralGeneral | Ives, Charles | Composers | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music
SymphoniesSymphonies | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music
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ASIN: B000038IDI
Release Date: 1999-11-15

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It starts, appropriately enough, with Charles Ives's The Unanswered Question, which seems to hold its breath, and occasionally exhale in brief bursts of panic, as the new century unfolds. It ends with Dmitri Shostakovich's Chamber Symphony Op. 110a (based on his String Quartet No. 8), whose alternating sequences of anguish, alarm, and derision come as close as possible for absolute music to indicting its bloody history--eight CDs and over 30 works later.

Rückblick Moderne: 20th Century Orchestral Music represents as fine a look back at musical modernism as you're likely to get. And in what a lavish package! A tall box holding two multi-CD jewel boxes and a beautifully printed booklet with photographs of modern and postmodern architecture and extensive liner notes (in German). Even the CDs themselves look handsome. All the more amazing when you realize that the entire set was digitally recorded live--with coughs, turning pages, chair creaks, and vivid sound--during one week in 1998 in Stuttgart (where, it seems, you have to travel nowadays even to hear about this kind of music), by such groups as the RSO Saarbrücken and the Bamberger Symphoniker, led by Dennis Russell Davies, Michael Gielen, Heinz Holliger, and other risk takers. Each CD has been programmed around a theme; for example, "Explosion/Implosion" (featuring Varèse and Mahler's tone poem Totenfeier, later becoming the first movement of his Second Symphony) and "Minimal Postludien," which includes (heads up, completists) Philip Glass's Echorus for two solo violins and string orchestra and Ligeti's Ramifications. Stravinsky, who, like Schoenberg and Cage, appears to cast a long shadow over this imposing collection, remains one of the highlights: a sharp, fiercely erotic performance of Le Sacre by Lothar Zagrosek and the Stattsorchester Stuttgart that helps remind us how much modern music has done, in the face of controversy and disaster, to ground us in our humanity. --Robert Burns Neveldine

Customer Reviews:

2 out of 5 stars BUT WHY?.......2002-05-15

At eight cds, this could have been a hefty set of 20th century orchestral music. But somewhere along the line, around the beginning of planning the festival I'm guessing, something went horribly wrong. There were eight concerts, each with a theme. The pieces chosen have often only a tenuous connection with the theme, if any. There are no women composers. There are no composers from Romania. There are no composers from the Czech Republic. There are no composers from Poland. That means no Gubuidulina, no Ana-Marie Avram, no Joan Tower. That means no Dumitrescu or Janacek or Lutoslawski. Can you believe it? A collection of twentieth century orchestral music with no Lutoslawski? Verily it boggleth the mind.

But so what? Are the pieces they did play well played? Well, sometimes. Gielen and Zender get predictably excellent results. But much of the rest sounds for all the world like first reads. Extremely sensitive and polished first reads to be sure, but no sense of piece qua piece, a thing with a shape from start to finish. (This is most apparent in the eccentric phrasing.) These are not the newer pieces, either, but Ives and Ravel and Bartok and Stravinsky. You know these people have played these pieces dozens of times. No excuse.

It's hard to fault a company (Col legno) that puts out so many fine performances of the likes of Helmut Lachenmann, but in this venture I really think they dropped the ball.

5 out of 5 stars Great Recordings.......2000-12-30

I wish I could read in German! This is the only "flaw" of this edition, in my opinion: it seems to have a great booklet, but I can't read it. Otherwise, it is a great collection: excelent recordings, good choice of works. I find it an excelent intro to modern music.

5 out of 5 stars A must for lovers of modern music.......2000-06-26

This 8 CD collection contains a wonderfully diverse selection of works that trace the development of music through the century. This set contains music form the pivotal artists from the beginning of the century; Schoenberg, Webern, Berg, Stravinsky, Debussy, Bartok, Ives and Varese. Master from later in the century include; Messiaen, Carter, Boulez, Cage, Feldman, Kurtag, Schnittke, Glass, and Ligeti. From the late romanticism of Mahler, to the impressionism of Ravel and Debussy, the atonality of the Second Viennese, the neo-styles of Stravinsky, Kurtag, Schostakovich, and Schnittke, to the minimalism of Glass, this collection has it all. Also within this collection are some classic compositions by lesser known masters such as; Maderna, Nono, Kagel. Rihm, Zimmerman, Furrer, and Lachenmann to name a few. Dennis Russell Davies, Michael Gielen, Heinze Holliger, and Hans Zender conduct superb performances of most of these classics. There is much to cherich in this collection, and are many treasures to be discovered.
Boulez at 70
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    Boulez at 70

    Manufacturer: Deutsche Grammophon
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    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B000NIKLJ4

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    Stravinsky-Fireworks Debussy-Nocturnes--Nuages Mahler-Symphony No 6--allegro ma non troppo. Heftig, aber markig (excerpt) Webern-Vier Lieder, Op 13 Bartok-Orchestra Pieces, Op 12-Scherzo Messiaen-Chonochromie--Antistrophe I Ligeti-Violin Concerto--Praeludium Ravel-Une barque sur l'ocean
    Musica Viva
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      Manufacturer: Col Legno
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      All Works by MessiaenAll Works by Messiaen | Messiaen, Olivier | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music
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      ASIN: B00004WK5R
      Release Date: 2000-08-29
      Gilles Leyronnas, Clarinette
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        Gilles Leyronnas, Clarinette

        Manufacturer: De Plein Vent
        ProductGroup: Music
        Binding: Audio CD

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        ASIN: B00000G5C3
        Release Date: 1999-01-25

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