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Quasi Morendo - Music of Brahms, Pesson & Sciarrino

Reto Bieri (clarinet)

Meta4

Awards:

Bieri’s control and expressivity in Sciarrino’s haunting solo Let Me Die Before I Wake is astonishing. He’s a soulful communicator in Brahms’s elegiac Quintet, too. Meta4 provide sumptuous support.

Quasi Morendo - Music of Brahms, Pesson & Sciarrino

Reto Bieri (clarinet)

Meta4

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Bieri’s control and expressivity in Sciarrino’s haunting solo Let Me Die Before I Wake is astonishing. He’s a soulful communicator in Brahms’s elegiac Quintet, too. Meta4 provide sumptuous support.

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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.

Contents and tracklist

1. Allegro
Track length13:33
2. Adagio
Track length10:52
3. Andantino
Track length4:50
4. Con moto
Track length10:12

Awards and reviews

  • Opus Klassik Awards
    2020
    Nominee - Instrumentalist of the Year  

September 2019

Bieri’s control and expressivity in Sciarrino’s haunting solo Let Me Die Before I Wake is astonishing. He’s a soulful communicator in Brahms’s elegiac Quintet, too. Meta4 provide sumptuous support.

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