A number of recordings of Weber's virtuoso clarinet music have come on the market since these 1980s Chandos recordings were released, but they have held their own well enough to merit reissue on the label's two-for-one budget line. They are, perhaps, quintessentially English despite the Finnish origin of the conductor in the orchestral works: straightforward, technically assured, warm in the orchestral sound (recorded mostly at Birmingham's Town Hall), and never drawing attention to itself or letting anyone see or hear ...
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A number of recordings of Weber's virtuoso clarinet music have come on the market since these 1980s Chandos recordings were released, but they have held their own well enough to merit reissue on the label's two-for-one budget line. They are, perhaps, quintessentially English despite the Finnish origin of the conductor in the orchestral works: straightforward, technically assured, warm in the orchestral sound (recorded mostly at Birmingham's Town Hall), and never drawing attention to itself or letting anyone see or hear anyone sweat. Weber's two big concertos, heard on disc 1, are masterful in the way they integrate extreme virtuosity into Beethovenian sonata-form models, with flashy cadenzas, for example, serving the structural function of transition between thematic groups. Clarinetist Janet Hilton proceeds smoothly through the most extraordinary feats of technical agility and sheer endurance, treating Weber's structures matter-of-factly where some performers (sample the recording on BIS by Sweden's...
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