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Ives: The String Quartets / Lydian Quartet Music | List Price | $17.97 (You save $3.48) | | Label | Centaur Records | | All Time Sales Rank |  28104  | | CD Universe Part number | 1192659 | | Catalog number | 2069 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Sep 01, 1993 | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Recording Time | 52 minutes |
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A CD presenting a solo instrument is, in principle, not unusual. In fact, when it comes to a solo CD by a pianist, it is most likely the rule rather than the exception. It is true that musical thoughts thoroughly sound and come to life in the harmony and concertising, or the combined voices, of various instruments; but amongst musicians, most likely even from prehistoric times, there has always wandered and dwelled the recluse, who more or less prefers to lay trust in himself, and feels most at home in a duet between his musical genius and the instrument he plays. With the present release by clarinettist Jože Kotar, however, it would be difficult to assign the performer to this category, given his activity in the past decade, on the concert stage as well as on CD, whether as a chamber musician in a wind quintet, as a member of a clarinet sextet, or a primary element of a wind trio with flute and bassoon, whether standing before a symphony orchestra as a classical soloist, recording a CD with a string quartet, or a more unusual CD in a duo with harp, whether we see him as the driving force of a clarinet choir, or standing before or performing in a wind ensemble, or whether we listen to him as the first clarinet of the Slovene Philharmonic Orchestra, or at concerts of chamber orchestras performing in conjunction with events organised by the Society of Slovene Composers, tackling mainly contemporary music by domestic and foreign composers, and, not least: on many occasions alone with his ebony instrument engaging in the most demanding of performance challenges set for this instrument - challenges in which one can perhaps find the reason for this new CD of exclusively authentic solo works written in the last four decades, some created specifically for Kotar. Our descendants through the centuries will probably shake their heads and only with difficulty believe that one single person – Jože Kotar – was able to undertake so many endeavours, especially in view of the fact that the activities enumerated are only those in the area of musical performance; in addition to these, he works as a musical pedagogue, beginning with his position as an associate professor at the Ljubljana Academy of Music, then moving on to his participation as a regular member of the international jury of various competitions, and so on, and so on... In view of this, it is essential that we can take as much as possible of this incredible breadth of artistry that marks and brings to life the magical sound moment captured on this recording, and calmly present it to the non-believer: look and listen, it is all true.But let us return to the point of departure of the present CD, on which the clarinet is established as a solo instrument. Amongst the selection on the CD are compositions which, one after another, demand the perfect technical mastery of the instrument and the utmost virtuosity of the soloist, while at the same time being a genuine exhibition, or survey, of all of the recent performance techniques at the soloist’s disposal, such as multiphonics (the simultaneous playing of more than one sound on a wind or brass instrument), the use of fingerings to produce intervals smaller than a semitone, the execution of a wide variety of sounds and noises of the instrument itself, whether generated by the vibration of the reed, or other sounds, produced either by hissing, vibrating the tongue, speaking into the instrument, by the chattering of keys, loud breathing, or playing or tapping on the component parts of the instrument. The recorded works are also an exposition of the more radical compositional techniques from the last half century, where the syntax of music is realised through the frequent use of extreme registers, extreme dynamics, extreme ...
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