Poulenc - Clarinet Sonata, Op. 184
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Chamber » Sonatas » Clarinet Sonatas
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[The playing] can affectionately embrace the whimsical to the manner born, but equally bristles with spellbinding virtuosity, compelling insight and crests a lifeforce carrying all before it. — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2024, Recording of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Chamber Music
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2025, Shortlisted - Chamber
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If you're after a single disc sampler of the main chamber works, James Levine's collaboration with the Ensemble Wien-Berlin offers eloquent and chic accounts of the Sextet, flute and clarinet... — More…
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Building a Library, May 2003, First Choice
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This disc of Poulenc chamber works provides much enjoyment. — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Chamber Music
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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... — More…
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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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This is an excellent, spirited two-CD set...A facotr that comes across clearly here is that Poulenc had a more or less infallible ear for tapping into the timbre and personality of different... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2012, Editor's Choice
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Invidious as it may seem to pick out just one of these excellent artists, special mention must be made of Ian Brown, who plays in nine of the 13 works included and confirms his standing as one... — More…
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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... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2007, Editor's Choice
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French Woodwind Music, Volume 2
Ravel & Poulenc
William Bennett (flute), James Campbell (clarinet), Nicholas Daniel (oboe), Rachel Gough (bassoon)
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Chamber Music
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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. — More…
