Barcelona Clarinet Players

Barcelona Clarinet Players – Jack Stamp: Chamber Music, Vol. 2 (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:06:02 minutes | 617 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Toccata Classics

Celebrating his 70th birthday on March 5th, the American composer John Stamp (b. 1954) – universally known as ‘Jack’ – is a familiar figure in the worlds of the symphonic wind-band movement that flourishes in US universities and of the brass band on both sides of the Atlantic. When the Barcelona Clarinet Players asked him for a new work, and then proposed this album, he had to create the repertoire from scratch. The range of moods he has generated here is surprisingly wide, from gentle night-music that caresses the ear, via jaunty fugal textures and buoyant counterpoint, to catchy dance-rhythms that set the foot tapping.

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Barcelona Clarinet Players – Jack Stamp Chamber Music Vol. 2 (2024) [24Bit-44.1kHz] FLAC [PMEDIA] ⭐️
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:06:02 minutes | 617 MB | Genre: Classique, Musique de chambre
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover

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Barcelona Clarinet Players – Fantasias Barcelonicas – A Tribute to Paquito D’Rivera (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 57:39 minutes | 579 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sunnyside

From my very first visit in the summer of 1980, the city of Barcelona fascinated me in all it’s senses, from Montjuic, Las Ramblas and the monumental cathedral of La Sagrada Familia to the Palau de la Musica, La Boquer a market and Plaza de Espa a. This must have influenced positively in my relationship with the members of the “Barcelona Clarinet Players,” which was love at first sight that began in 2018 during my conversation with the outstanding Cuban-Spanish pianist Pepe Rivero at the AIE headquarters in Barcelona. That afternoon they told me about the arrangement they had made of my “Afro” for a music program for children, so when I got back home I started sending them pieces of mine adapted from versions for previous formats, such as “Cuban Sharks”, “A Farewell Mambo”, “The Elephant and the Clown”, “La Fleur de Cayenne”,”Kites over Havana” or “Wapango”. All of this until one fine day the restless Barcelona Clarinetists got excited at commissioned me an original work for this very special musical ensemble. “Fantas as Barcel nicas” was born, moved by three emblematic Catalan artists whom I have admired for years: The inspired novelist Carlos Ruiz Zafon, who narrated the mysteries of the night in Barcelona, the charismatic pianist Tete Montoliu, whose sense of swing and jazz improvisation are an indispensable part of the soundtrack of the city where Mir and Caball were born; and finally the brilliant architect Antoni Gaud , who with his amazing and luminous style, fills the streets of his native land with unrepeatable architectural gems. The fact that this extraordinary group of fellow clarinetists decided on recording a CD with works of my own honors me by offering me the opportunity to sing publicly my love for this magical city and my devotion to some of his most beloved children.

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