Charles Koechlin - Music for Clarinet (Dirk Altmann)

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Composer: Charles Koechlin

• Clarinet Sonata No. 1, Op. 85
• The Confessions of a Clarinet Player, Op. 141
• Clarinet Sonata No. 2, Op. 86
• Idyll for 2 clarinets, Op. 155
• 14 pieces for clarinet & piano, Op. 178
• Monodies for clarinet solo, Op. 216

Dirk Altmann, clarinet

Florian Henschel, piano

Sibylle Mahni-Haas, horn

Rudolf König, clarinet

Gunter Teuffel, viola

Johanna Busch, cello

Date: 2005

Label: Hänssler Classic

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Charles Koechlin (27 November 1867 – 31 December 1950) was a French composer, teacher and musicologist. Among his teachers at the Paris Conservatoire were Jules Massenet, Gabriel Fauré, Maurice Ravel and Jean Roger-Ducasse. He was a political radical all his life and a passionate enthusiast for such diverse things as medieval music, The Jungle Book of Rudyard Kipling, Johann Sebastian Bach, film stars (especially Lilian Harvey and Ginger Rogers), traveling, stereoscopic photography and socialism. As a composer, Koechlin was enormously prolific, and was highly eclectic in inspiration and technique.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Koechlin

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Clarinetist Dirk Altmann was born in 1965 in Hanover. He studied with H. Pallushek at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hannover, and also received lessons from Karl Leister. From 1982 to 1986, he was a member of the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie. Altmann has been a member of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra since 1985 and member of the SWR Symphony Orchestra since 2016. In addition to working in the orchestra, Altmann is also co-founder of "Varianti" and, in 1999, of the "NewEars.ensemble" - the ensemble for contemporary music of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra.

https://www.swr.de/swrkultur/musik-klassik/symphonieorchester/article-swr-4126.html

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