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Music for Clarinet and Piano

Alan R. Kay

Music for Clarinet and Piano

Format: CD
Label: Bridge
UPC: 0090404946127
Catnr: BRIDG 9461
Release date: 08 July 2016
1 CD
 
Label
Bridge
UPC
0090404946127
Catalogue number
BRIDG 9461
Release date
08 July 2016

""Music technical is the trio sonates with klarinettist Alan R. Kay and pianist Jon Klibonoff in good hands." 3 Star Rating"

De Gelderlander, 31-8-2016
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About the album

Max Reger's three clarinet sonatas form the main course of this beautifully rendered recital. The two op. 49 sonatas and the late op. 107 sonata, when heard together, perfectly illustrate that turbulent period of transition from the Romantic era to the twentieth century. Alan R. Kay, Principal Clarinetist of Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and Jon Klibonoff, first prize winner of the Kosciuszko Chopin Competition, deliver performances that are simultaneously intimate and full of instrumental virtuosity.

Die drei Klarinettensonaten von Max Reger, op. 49 und 107, illustrieren den Übergang von der Romantik in das 20. Jahrhundert auf eindrucksvolle Weise.

Artist(s)

Alan R. Kay (clarinet)

Clarinetist Alan R. Kay, a member since 2002 of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and currently its program coordinator, received in June 2003 a Presidential Scholars Teacher Award. A member of the ensembles Windscape and Hexagon, he is principal clarinet of the Orchestra of St. Luke's. Artistic director of the New York Chamber Ensemble, he has also produced thematic programs for the Cape May Music Festival. He returned this past summer for his fifth season at the Yellow Barn Summer Festival and School and made his first appearances with the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival. A highlight of his last season was the performance at Carnegie Hall of Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante with Jaime Laredo and the New York String Orchestra. During the...
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Clarinetist Alan R. Kay, a member since 2002 of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and currently its program coordinator, received in June 2003 a Presidential Scholars Teacher Award. A member of the ensembles Windscape and Hexagon, he is principal clarinet of the Orchestra of St. Luke's. Artistic director of the New York Chamber Ensemble, he has also produced thematic programs for the Cape May Music Festival. He returned this past summer for his fifth season at the Yellow Barn Summer Festival and School and made his first appearances with the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival. A highlight of his last season was the performance at Carnegie Hall of Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante with Jaime Laredo and the New York String Orchestra. During the coming season, he will perform the Copland clarinet concerto with the Westfield Symphony, will make guest appearances with the Mendelssohn String Quartet, and will take part in three tours with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. As conductor, Mr. Kay recently led the orchestra at Azusa Pacific University, in addititon to appearances with Speculum Musicae, the Cape May Festival Orchestra, and the Buck's County and Staten Island symphonies. A visiting professor last summer at the Summer Music Academy in Leipzig, Germany, Mr. Kay is a member of the faculties of the Manhattan School of Music, the Hartt Conservatory of Music, and The Julliard School.

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Max Reger

Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger (19 March 1873 – 11 May 1916) was a German composer, conductor, pianist, organist, and academic teacher. Born in Brand, Bavaria, Reger studied music in Munich and Wiesbaden with Hugo Riemann. From September 1901 he settled in Munich, where he obtained concert offers and where his rapid rise to fame began. During his first Munich season, Reger appeared in ten concerts as an organist, chamber pianist and accompanist. He continued to compose without interruption. From 1907 he worked in Leipzig, where he was music director of the universityuntil 1908 and professor of composition at the conservatory until his death. In 1911 he moved to Meiningen where he got the position of Hofkapellmeister at the court of Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen. In 1915 he moved to Jena, commuting once a week to teach in Leipzig. He died in May 1916 on...
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Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger (19 March 1873 – 11 May 1916) was a German composer, conductor, pianist, organist, and academic teacher. Born in Brand, Bavaria, Reger studied music in Munich and Wiesbaden with Hugo Riemann. From September 1901 he settled in Munich, where he obtained concert offers and where his rapid rise to fame began. During his first Munich season, Reger appeared in ten concerts as an organist, chamber pianist and accompanist. He continued to compose without interruption. From 1907 he worked in Leipzig, where he was music director of the universityuntil 1908 and professor of composition at the conservatory until his death. In 1911 he moved to Meiningen where he got the position of Hofkapellmeister at the court of Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen. In 1915 he moved to Jena, commuting once a week to teach in Leipzig. He died in May 1916 on one of these trips of a heart attack at age 43.
He had also been active internationally as a conductor and pianist. Among his students were Joseph Haas, Sándor Jemnitz, Jaroslav Kvapil, Ruben Liljefors, George Szell and Cristòfor Taltabull.
Reger was the cousin of Hans von Koessler.

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"Music technical is the trio sonates with klarinettist Alan R. Kay and pianist Jon Klibonoff in good hands." 3 Star Rating
De Gelderlander, 31-8-2016

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