Clarinet Sonatas 20th Century

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This album is a journey through the most important sonatas written in the 20th century with the clarinet as the protagonist, by five great composers. Argentine composer Carlos Guastavino proposes us in his Sonata for clarinet and piano a neoclassical atmosphere in the clear formal definition of his themes and in a certain harmonic freedom, yet he offers a more scholastic work, more solid and resounding that is already clearly evident from the beginning of the work. This release also includes a final perspective of the neoclassical conceptual model, offered by the Austrian composer and conductor Joseph Horovitz in his Sonatina for clarinet and piano composed in 1981. Sonata en re by Nino Rota, composed in 1945, comes to us to finally offer us a musical image brimming with Mediterranean light. Kindness, beauty, simplicity and pleasant repose merge into a piece of scholastic organization in which solid formal structures guarantee the listening and understanding of a fundamentally melodic discourse, always well-articulated. Sonata for clarinet and piano by Francis Poulenc brings tenderness to the album. The slow section of the first movement invades all who know the work but its beauty is not only collected there. A different world, despite the proximity in time is what Edison Denissow offers us in his Sonata for clarinet, composed in 1972.