Piotr Lato

Piotr Lato, Messages Quartet – Wajnberg, Tansman, Przybylski: Clarinet Quintets (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 51:22 minutes | 966 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © DUX Recording Producers

In the 20th century, with the transformations in aesthetics, new facets of the clarinet were discovered, but it always remained an instrument with unrivaled tonal, dynamic, articulation, and agogic properties. The clarinet can be sensitive and vulgar, discreet and intrusive, mysterious, and unceremoniously transparent. It can evoke the atmosphere of folk fun, mournful lament, or an oriental scene. It can do a lot. And its most admirable ability is its capacity to blend with different instruments, with their colors merging or contrasting. Together, they create completely new, synthetic colors, whose quality depends not only on what it is combined with but also on the register in which the combination takes place.

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