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Krommer and Spohr: Clarinet Concertos.(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
Krommer and Spohr: Clarinet Concertos. Sabine Meyer and Julian Bliss, clarinets; Kenneth Sillito, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. EMI Classics 0946 3 79786 2 7.
Things begin in the lightest possible mood with Franz Krommer's Concerto for Two Clarinets (1815). The opening movement is as frothy as it could be, the two young clarinetists, Sabine Meyer and Julian Bliss, appearing to have a good time in the give-and-take communication of their instruments. The second movement Adagio, however, seems to belong to a different work altogether, Don Giovanni perhaps, heavy and ponderous. But things lighten up again in the Finale.
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