Special offer. Weber: Wind Concertos
Maximiliano Martin (clarinet), Peter Whelan (bassoon), Alec Frank-Gemmill (horn)
Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Alexander Janiczek
Most clarinettists accept the revisions carried out by Barmann but Martin Spangenburg keeps strictly to the letter of Weber's score. He is a fine player, and there is much to admire in his performances,...
Special offer. Weber: Wind Concertos
Maximiliano Martin (clarinet), Peter Whelan (bassoon), Alec Frank-Gemmill (horn)
Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Alexander Janiczek
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Most clarinettists accept the revisions carried out by Barmann but Martin Spangenburg keeps strictly to the letter of Weber's score. He is a fine player, and there is much to admire in his performances,...
About
The multi-award-winning Scottish Chamber Orchestra returns with Weber Wind Concertos, the sixteenth album in its celebrated series with Linn. This recording gives the internationally acclaimed principal musicians a chance to dazzle in Weber’s virtuosic and thrilling concertos.
The Clarinet Concerto is one of the cornerstones of the clarinet repertoire.
For this performance Peter Whelan has reconstructed a version of the 1822 Bassoon Concerto score rather than employing the commonly used 1865 version.
In a unique twist Alec Frank-Gemmill performs his own version of the cadenza in the virtuosic Horn Concertino famous for its chromatic pitches and the requirement of multiphonic chords.
The SCO has an impressive recording history including a Grammy-nominated set of Brahms Symphonies, winning the Orchestral category of the BBC Awards in 2009 and a 2011 ECHO Klassik Award for its Mozart recordings, in addition to much critical acclaim.
Spanish clarinettist Maximiliano Martin is rapidly establishing himself as one of the most exciting and charismatic musicians of his generation.
Peter Whelan, one of Europe’s leading exponents of historical and modern bassoon, won a Gramophone Award for his recording of Vivaldi bassoon concertos with La Serenissima.
Alec Frank-Gemmill is much in demand as a soloist and is also frequently invited to play principal horn with orchestras such as the London Philharmonic and the Philharmonia.
Contents and tracklist
- Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Alexander Janiczek, Maximiliano Martin
- Recorded: 5 and 9 September 2011
- Recording Venue: Usher Hall, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
- Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Alexander Janiczek, Peter Whelan
- Recorded: 5 and 9 September 2011
- Recording Venue: Usher Hall, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
- Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Alexander Janiczek, Alac Frank-Gemmill
- Recorded: 5 and 9 September 2011
- Recording Venue: Usher Hall, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
- Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Alexander Janiczek, Maximiliano Martin
- Recorded: 5 and 9 September 2011
- Recording Venue: Usher Hall, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Awards and reviews
November 2012
Most clarinettists accept the revisions carried out by Barmann but Martin Spangenburg keeps strictly to the letter of Weber's score. He is a fine player, and there is much to admire in his performances, but the recessed orchestral sound, with the strings lacking in bite, hinders the music-making from taking wing.
Awards Issue 2012
I especially enjoyed Alec Frank-Gemmill's cheeky handling of the runs and decorations in the Horn Concertino
15th September 2012
There must have been astonishing wind players in early 19th-century Germany. And after hearing the irresistible concertos that Carl Maria von Weber penned for them, one can imagine what moody, flamboyant characters they were.
1st December 2012
When you hear Peter Whelan play the Bassoon Concerto, you’ll forgive Weber anything; his is such an expressive, plangent sound...Both [clarinet works] are dispatched with wit and fire by Maximiliano Martín...This is a beguiling CD; feelgood music of the best sort
