Brahms & Janacek: Clarinet Sonatas
Shirley Brill (clarinet) & Jonathan Aner (piano)
Brill’s velvety sound is ideal for Brahms’s autumnal sonatas, radiating a nostalgic glow tinged with sadness, memorably offset by her skilful transcription of Janáček’s haunting violin sonata.
Brahms & Janacek: Clarinet Sonatas
Shirley Brill (clarinet) & Jonathan Aner (piano)
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Brill’s velvety sound is ideal for Brahms’s autumnal sonatas, radiating a nostalgic glow tinged with sadness, memorably offset by her skilful transcription of Janáček’s haunting violin sonata.
About
Shirley Brill and Jonathan Aner have performed together as the Brillaner Duo since 1999, giving concerts in Europe (Berlin Philharmonie, Zurich Tonhalle), the USA (Carnegie Hall), Asia (Shanghai Oriental Art Center), Australia and Israel. They regularly appear as guests at the music festivals of Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg- West Pomerania, Rheingau, Heidelberg, the Festival de Radio France et Montpellier and the Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival.
Contents and tracklist
- Brillaner Duo
- Recorded: 23-26 March 2015
- Recording Venue: Sendessal, Bremen, Germany
- Brillaner Duo
- Recorded: 23-26 March 2015
- Recording Venue: Sendessal, Bremen, Germany
Violin Sonata, JW VII / 7 (Arr. S. Brill for Clarinet & Piano): II. Ballada. Con moto
Track length4:43
- Brillaner Duo
- Recorded: 23-26 March 2015
- Recording Venue: Sendessal, Bremen, Germany
Awards and reviews
Christmas 2017
Brill’s velvety sound is ideal for Brahms’s autumnal sonatas, radiating a nostalgic glow tinged with sadness, memorably offset by her skilful transcription of Janáček’s haunting violin sonata.
December 2017
These performances of Brahms’s clarinet sonatas have a feeling of spontaneity that suggests involved, intimate conversation…Brill’s tone is reedy and intensely expressive, and she can whittle it down to the merest whisper…Brill and Aner are acutely sensitive to the [Janáček’s] myriad harmonic details and their playing fairly bristles with character and incident.
13th January 2018
Brill's coupling is her own transcription of Janáček’s Violin Sonata. It's remarkably effective, the clarinet’s vocal abilities ideally suited to this composer's speech-like motifs. The playing is frequently stunning: the sharp downward flurries at the start of the “Allegretto” are ear-tickling, and the hushed, downbeat close to the whole work floored me.
