Phibbs & Mozart: Clarinet Concertos
Mark van de Wiel (clarinet), Philharmonia Orchestra, London Chamber Orchestra, Christopher Warren-Green
Awards:
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Presto Editor's Choice, July 2019
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The Times Records of the Year, 2019
Phibbs has built up an attractive catalogue of orchestral works, always lucidly and colourfully scored, of which the Clarinet Concerto is a substantial and inventive example. Its serene opening...
Phibbs & Mozart: Clarinet Concertos
Mark van de Wiel (clarinet), Philharmonia Orchestra, London Chamber Orchestra, Christopher Warren-Green
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Awards:
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Presto Editor's Choice, July 2019
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The Times Records of the Year, 2019
Phibbs has built up an attractive catalogue of orchestral works, always lucidly and colourfully scored, of which the Clarinet Concerto is a substantial and inventive example. Its serene opening...
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Mark van de Wiel joins the Philharmonia Orchestra under Christopher Warren-Green in the premiere recording of Joseph Phibbs’ Clarinet Concerto, praised by The Sunday Times (following its UK debut) as a work “that will surely be performed all over the world.”
Following a long friendship between composer and soloist, Phibbs and van de Wiel collaborated to create this stunning and virtuosic new work for the clarinet and orchestra, which features a thrilling cadenza at the end of the first movement.
It is paired with a scintillating live concert recording of Mozart’s timeless Concerto for Basset Clarinet in A Major, K. 622, performed with the London Chamber Orchestra.
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Awards and reviews
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Presto Editor's ChoiceJuly 2019
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The Times Records of the Year2019
October 2019
Phibbs has built up an attractive catalogue of orchestral works, always lucidly and colourfully scored, of which the Clarinet Concerto is a substantial and inventive example. Its serene opening draws on Van de Wiel’s gift for shapely-phrased legato…Warren-Green secures crisp rhythms and vivid detail from the Philharmonia in life-like sound.
July 2019
Phibbs’s 2017 Clarinet Concerto encompasses elements of jazz, klezmer and Americana, and opens with a shimmering aubade for soloist, harp and muted strings that’s one of the loveliest things I’ve heard all year. The account of the Mozart (performed here on basset clarinet) is also well worth hearing, not least for the deliciously spacious slow movement and van der Wiel’s tasteful ornamentation.
7th July 2019
Van de Wiel gives superb performances, that of the Mozart a live one. The clarinet concerto by Phibbs was composed for him, and he makes a magnificent case for it. It’s felicitously written, the language not far from traditionally tonal, the stylistic range considerable.
25th July 2019
[The Phibbs is] an energised and energising work, well worth exploring.
