Notes and Editorial Reviews
Few instruments are as adept as the clarinet at imitating the sound of the human voice in its whole range of vocal expression. This has been especially true since the Romantic period: time and again composers have had recourse to the clarinet whenever they wanted to evoke an emotional – but unsentimental – mood or to create the sort of atmosphere of dreamy otherworldliness that is associated with the hours of twilight: here one thinks especially of Carl Maria von Weber in Germany and of Berlioz in France.
Nicola Ju?rgensen goes a step further – “into the night” – in her present programme, Dans la nuit, which takes its title from a song by Reynaldo Hahn. The clarinettist, who has appeared as a soloist with many leading European
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orchestras, while also making a name for herself as a chamber recitalist at international music festivals such as Risør and Lockenhaus, has adapted these 19th- and early 20th- century French works for her instrument and recorded them with the pianist Matthias Kirschnereit. Well-known and lesser-known songs by Berlioz, Hahn, Faure? and Poulenc feature here alongside more dramatic and virtuoso pieces. The result of this unexpected instrumental union is a living impression of the Paris salons of the belle e?poque, captured in stylish interpretations.
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Works on This Recording
1.
Après un rêve, Op. 7 no 1 by Gabriel Fauré
Performer:
Nicola Jurgensen (Clarinet),
Matthias Kirschnereit (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1877; France
2.
Léocadia: Les chemins de l'amour by Francis Poulenc
Performer:
Nicola Jurgensen (Clarinet),
Matthias Kirschnereit (Piano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1940; France
3.
Les fontaines by Reynaldo Hahn
Performer:
Nicola Jurgensen (Clarinet),
Matthias Kirschnereit (Piano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: France
4.
L'enamourée by Reynaldo Hahn
Performer:
Nicola Jurgensen (Clarinet),
Matthias Kirschnereit (Piano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: France
5.
Fêtes galantes by Reynaldo Hahn
Performer:
Nicola Jurgensen (Clarinet),
Matthias Kirschnereit (Piano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1892; France
6.
Dans la nuit by Reynaldo Hahn
Performer:
Nicola Jurgensen (Clarinet),
Matthias Kirschnereit (Piano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: France
7.
Chanson Grises: L'heure exquise by Reynaldo Hahn
Performer:
Nicola Jurgensen (Clarinet),
Matthias Kirschnereit (Piano)
Period: Post-Romantic
Written: 1887-1890
8.
A Chloris by Reynaldo Hahn
Performer:
Nicola Jurgensen (Clarinet),
Matthias Kirschnereit (Piano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1916; France
9.
Thaïs: Meditation by Jules Massenet
Performer:
Nicola Jurgensen (Clarinet),
Matthias Kirschnereit (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1894; France
10.
Introduction and Rondo capriccioso for Violin and Orchestra in A minor, Op. 28 by Camille Saint-Saëns
Performer:
Nicola Jurgensen (Clarinet),
Matthias Kirschnereit (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1863; France
11.
Fantasie brillante for Flute and Piano on Bizet's Carmen by François Borne
Performer:
Nicola Jurgensen (Clarinet),
Matthias Kirschnereit (Piano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: Poland
12.
Carnival of the animals: no 13, The swan by Camille Saint-Saëns
Performer:
Nicola Jurgensen (Clarinet),
Matthias Kirschnereit (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1886; France
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