Gervase de Peyer: Clarinet Recital

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An enjoyable recital from the master clarinettist in his prime, soaring and chortling through 19th- and 20th-century delights — BBC Music Magazine, May 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 10th Feb 2017
Catalogue No: ELQ4822851
Label: Eloquence
Length: 45 minutes

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Weber: Grand Duo Concertant for clarinet and piano, Op. 48

Work length15:57

Gervase de Peyer (clarinet), Cyril Preedy (piano)
Recorded: 1960

1. Allegro con fuoco

Track length5:08

2. Andante con moto

Track length5:07

3. Rondo:Allegro

Track length5:42

Schmitt, F: Andantino, for clarinet & piano

Work length3:22

Gervase de Peyer (clarinet), Cyril Preedy (piano)
Recorded: 1960

Debussy: Petite Pièce for Clarinet and Piano

Work length1:09

Gervase de Peyer (clarinet), Cyril Preedy (piano)
Recorded: 1960

Horovitz: Two Majorcan Pieces, for clarinet & piano

Work length3:39

Gervase de Peyer (clarinet), Cyril Preedy (piano)
Recorded: 1960

Paguera

Track length2:27

Valdemosa

Track length1:12

Benjamin, A: Le Tombeau de Ravel: Valse-Caprices

Work length11:42

Gervase de Peyer (clarinet), Cyril Preedy (piano)
Recorded: 1960

Martinů: Sonatina for Clarinet & Piano, H. 356

Work length10:02

Gervase de Peyer (clarinet), Cyril Preedy (piano)
Recorded: 1960

1. Moderato

Track length5:30

2. Andante

Track length2:15

3. Poco allegro

Track length2:17

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‘Gervase de Peyer is one of the greatest instrumentalist alive’ announced Fanfare magazine. One of the foremost clarinettists of the 20th century, London-born Gervase de Peyer was chosen soloist for a host of conductors and made many award-winning recordings for Decca, L’Oiseau-Lyre and EMI among others. His Concerto recordings have won the Grand Prix du Disque, Charles Gros and the Plaque of Honour of the Academy of Arts and Sciences of America. His solo performances in recitals and in Chamber Music have been awarded many honours and remain highly recommended. In 1950 he was a founding member of the Melos Ensemble of London.

This recital of works for clarinet and piano of mostly 20th-century repertoire, but including Weber’s virtuosic Grand Duo Concertant from 1816, was highly regarded when first issued, and receives its first release on CD.

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May 2017

An enjoyable recital from the master clarinettist in his prime, soaring and chortling through 19th- and 20th-century delights

March 1961

The brilliance and attack of both players to the Weber is such that you woud hardly think two such athletic performers could quickly assume a poetic disguise. But, stressing the hundred-year gulf, they do so, and it serves to illuminate some music of very great charm … The recording offers an excellent balance between the two instruments; a slight shift away from the traditional stress on the clarinet in this particular combination is all to the good as far as the blend, a difficult one, is concerned.

His phrasing is like that of a human singer, but with a power, agility and range beyond any singer’s capability; technique that treats the music as though it were happening spontaneously for the first time; an acute awareness of overall form and a tone like a voice coming down from Heaven - voices, actually, because the clarinet has more than one.

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