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Label Evil Penguin |
UPC 0608917724028 |
Catalogue number EPRC 0053 |
Release date 05 May 2023 |
"The moving aria from Der Freischütz, whose main component is the masterful main theme of the opera - it circles through the air like a lark - works surprisingly well on the clarinet. Hendrikx knows what to do with it. Just as he audibly enjoys the breakneck antics towards the end of the finale of the Second Clarinet Concerto. Finally, the Variations on a theme from the opera Silvana provide an additional showcase for the versatility of the clarinet. The Rheinische Philharmonie under the Belgian Michel Tilkin plays excellently and the whole is beautifully captured."
Luister, 01-9-2023Diese Aufnahme würdigt das unvergleichliche Talent Carl Maria von Webers, die Klarinette wie eine Operndiva sprechen, singen, weinen und strahlen zu lassen. Neben dem belgischen Virtuosen Roeland Hendrikx haben sich auch der preisgekrönte Arrangeur Andreas Tarkmann und das Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie an der Beantwortung einer Reihe von Fragen beteiligt, die sich über den „ersten deutschen Romantiker" stellen. Welche Arbeitsteilung bestand zwischen Weber und Heinrich Baermann, seinem favorisierten Klarinettisten? Wie viel Baermann müssen wir eliminieren, um zum echten Weber vorzudringen? Und vor allem: Wie viel Tarkmann braucht es, um den ganzen Weber zu entdecken?
Hendrikx is in high demand as a concert soloist, and he has appeared with a great selection of acclaimed orchestras. Especially noteworthy was his recent Mozart tour across Flanders and The Netherlands with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, under the baton of Edward Gardner.
Roeland Hendrikx’ presence on concert stages around the world should not obscure his deep love of chamber music. Hendrikx has cooperated with acclaimed colleagues like Severin Von Eckardstein, Liebrecht Vanbeckevoort, Jan Michiels, the Panocha Quartet, Tempera Quartet, Doric Quartet, Danel Quartet, Silesian String Quartet and the Berliner Philharmoniker Streichquintett. In 2015, Roeland founded the Roeland Hendrikx Ensemble, which focuses on the rich repertoire for clarinet, piano and strings.
Hendrikx’s latest release “The clarinet as prima donna” features clarinet concertos and opera arias by Carl Maria von Weber with the Rheinische Philharmonie and award-winning arranger Andreas Tarkmann, who fashioned a new cadenza for the first concerto, and recomposed Leise, leise, the central aria from Der Freischütz, for clarinet and orchestra.
Roeland Hendrikx’s other recording activities bear testimony to an unusual versatility. In 2018, he enlisted the venerable London Philharmonic Orchestra to enregister the Mozart, Finzi and Bruch concertos, an accomplishment that “had it all”, according to Diapason: “accuracy, lyricism, elegance”. Following this large-scale extravaganza, Hendrikx scaled down to smaller line-ups. In 2020 he tackled Steve Reich’s New York Counterpoint in an immersive recording adventure (called The Harmony of Isolation), followed by a crossover project which fused Saint-Saëns Carnaval des Animaux and Apollinaire’s literary Bestiaire in a chamber-musical Animal Farm, hailed by France Musique as a “magnificent rearrangement (…) of compositions at once musical, pictorial, and poetic”.
Roeland has many acclaimed chamber music recordings to his credit, including the Mozart and Brahms Clarinet Quintets (“chamber music at its best” – De Standaard), the Debussy and Poulenc Sonatas (“a delight” –Gramophone), and the Clarinet Quintet by Piet Swerts (“infinitely seductive” – Resmusica).
The moving aria from Der Freischütz, whose main component is the masterful main theme of the opera - it circles through the air like a lark - works surprisingly well on the clarinet. Hendrikx knows what to do with it. Just as he audibly enjoys the breakneck antics towards the end of the finale of the Second Clarinet Concerto. Finally, the Variations on a theme from the opera Silvana provide an additional showcase for the versatility of the clarinet. The Rheinische Philharmonie under the Belgian Michel Tilkin plays excellently and the whole is beautifully captured.
Luister, 01-9-2023