Description
Title: Brahms: Clarinet Sonatas, Op. 120 & 3 Intermezzi, Op. 117
Artist: Nicola Boud
Label: Fuga Libera Label
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 5400439008557
Genre: Classical Artists
Release Date: 2025-12-12
Number of Discs: 1
This recording brings together two late masterworks by Brahms: the Op. 120 Clarinet Sonatas and the Op. 117 Intermezzi for piano, written in the tranquil setting of Bad Ischl. The sonatas, full of tenderness and quiet intensity, were composed for clarinetist Richard Muhlfeld, whose warm, lyrical playing reignited Brahms’s desire to compose after a period of silence. This is music of dialogue, not declaration. Nicola Boud and Anthony Romaniuk perform on instruments close to those Brahms and Muhlfeld would have known: a replica of Muhlfeld’s 19th-century boxwoodclarinet and an 1875 Steinway piano. These choices bring a soft, transparent quality to the sound, inviting a more intimate listening experience. Expressive tools of 19th-century performance: rubato, flexibility, arpeggiation, are used not as effects, but as natural extensions of the music’s emotional landscape.Brahms once called the Op. 117 Intermezzi “three lullabies of my grief.” These restrained yet luminous pieces distil his late style into elegiac monologues, offering quiet spaces where time feels suspended. Together, these warm, reflective and deeply emotional works offer a glimpse into Brahms’ final years.
Tracks:
1.1 Clarinet Sonata No. 2, Op. 120 No. 2~Allegro amabile
1.2 Clarinet Sonata No. 2, Op. 120 No. 2~Allegro appassionato
1.3 Clarinet Sonata No. 2, Op. 120 No. 2~Andante con moto – Allegro
1.4 Three Intermezzi, Op. 117~Andante moderato
1.5 Three Intermezzi, Op. 117~Andante non troppe e con molto espressione
1.6 Three Intermezzi, Op. 117~Andante con moto
1.7 Clarinet Sonata No. 1, Op. 120 No. 1~Allegro appassionato
1.8 Clarinet Sonata No. 1, Op. 120 No. 1~Andante un poco adagio
1.9 Clarinet Sonata No. 1, Op. 120 No. 1~Allegretto grazioso
1.10 Clarinet Sonata No. 1, Op. 120 No. 1~Vivace
1.11 Wie Melodien zieht es mir, Op. 105 No. 1
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