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Saint-Saëns - Clarinet Sonata in E flat major, Op. 167
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Saint-Seëns in full vigour and mastery - a wonderful pair of discs —
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2005, Chamber Choice
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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La Clarinette Francaise: Jos Van Immerseel & Lisa Shklyaver
Jos Van Immerseel (piano) & Lisa Shklyaver (clarinet)
This truly outstanding CD is not only ideally programmed and superbly played - using a clarinet from 1830 and a Bechstein from 1870 - but most naturally recorded too. Every work here is a small-scale... —
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The Clarinet Sonatas by Saint-Saëns and Poulenc are both late works, but they're very different in feeling: the Saint-Saëns generally relaxed and classical, the Poulenc more excitable, swinging... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2007, Editor's Choice
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Saint-Saëns: Music for Wind Instruments
Stéphane Lemelin (piano)
Canada’s National Arts Centre Wind Quintet
...performances that encapsulate the Gallic charm and finesse of the music. At the same time, the Oboe Sonata's mix of the pastoral and the perky is nicely established, as is the blend of warmth... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2011, Editor's Choice
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The four canonical pieces need no puffs from me and, like everything else on the disc, are played superbly...Ogawa is both self-effacing when required, and unfailingly prompt and sympathetic... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2021, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. French Music for clarinet and piano
Ronald Van Spaendonck (clarinet) & Alexandre Tharaud (piano)
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Special offer. Saint-Saens: Complete Sonatas
Mauro Tortorelli (violin), Angela Meluso (piano), Andrea Favalessa (cello), Maria Semeraro (piano), Akanè Makita (piano), Soloists of the Accademia Di Santa Cecilia Rome
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Special offer. Origines & Departs: French Music for Clarinet & Piano
Maximiliano Martin (clarinet), Scott Mitchell
The performances are strong, at times strikingly intense, occasionally large in gesture and scale. —
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Special offer. Alexandre Tharaud: Voyage en France
Works for solo piano, and with clarinet & flute
Alexandre Tharaud (piano) with Philippe Bernold (flute), Ronald Van Spaendonck (clarinet)
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Special offer. Clarinet Sonatas
Karl Leister (clarinet), Dario Zingales (clarinet), Alexey Grots (piano), Akanè Makita (soloist), Vlad Weverbergh (clarinet), Jadranka Gasparovic (cello), Vasily Ilisavsky (piano), Claudio Conti (clarinet), Roberta Bambace (piano), Davide Bandieri (soloist), Alessandra Gentile (soloist), Jean-Philippe...
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