Release Date: 10 May 2019
Label: ECM New Series
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 028948180820
Genres: Classical Chamber Music
Description
Reto Bieri's solo album Contrechant, released in 2011, was widely praised for the Swiss clarinettist's beauty of tone and his uncommon expressiveness with extended instrumental techniques.
His latest recording on ECM New Series, Quasi Morendo, begins with a new exploration of one of the pieces featured on Contrechant, Salvatore Sciarrino's Let Me Die Before I Wake (1982), with its "whisper-quiet sound world of harmonics, multiphonics and tremolandos" (The Guardian).
Bieri is then joined by Finnish string quartet Meta4 for a profound interpretation of Johannes Brahms's Quintet op 115 (1891). Inspired by Brahms's friendship with clarinettist Richard Mühlfeld the quintet sounds freer, and more idyllic, than the composer's earlier chamber music, yet is one of his most meticulously constructed works. The album closes with Gérard Pesson's Nebenstück (1998), a ghostly re-arrangement of Brahms's Ballade, Op. 10 No. 4.
Personnel: Reto Bieri (clarinet), Meta4 (Antti Tikkanen: violin; Minna Pensola: violin; Atte Kilpeläinen: viola; Tomas Djupsjöbacka: violoncello)
Tracklisting
Anna Gourari, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana & Markus Poschner
Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica & Vida Mikneviciute
Arvo Part
Thomas Larcher
John Holloway Ensemble
Heinz Holliger & Anton Kernjak
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra & Tonu Kaljuste
Karlheinz Stockhausen Michaels Reise
Torleif Thedeen (cello) & Marianna Shirinyan (piano)
Magnus Boye Hansen (violin), Mathias Halvorsen (piano)
Rafael Catala, Musica Iberica
Carlotta Malquori, Andrea D'Amato
Ensemble La Francaise
Christoph Croise; Andrey Baranov; Alexander Panfilov
Trio Parnassus
Kilian Herold, Barbara Buntrock, Florian Donderer, Tanja Tetzlaff
