Hartke, Stephen - Clarinet Concerto (Landscapes With Blues) / Pacific Rim - Stoltzman, Richard

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...The music is evocative of its source without being facile or pandering. It's smart, unpretentious, personal, and imaginative...Who would think that Germantown, Tennessee, would boast such a gifted chamber orchestra as the IRIS? But it does, I am sure largely due to the initiative and energy of Michael Stern. The sound of the disc is wonderful...

(Fanfare)





NEW YORK TIMES - BEST CLASSICAL CDs 2003



...Many composers have foundered trying to incorporate elements of jazz into contemporary classical idioms, but Stephen Hartke pulls it off deftly in his Clarinet Concerto, "Landscapes With Blues," perhaps because he doesn't try so hard. This audacious, ingeniously complex work is steeped in Delta blues and West African folk music, and the other works are also exhilarating...

(New York Times)




Richard Stoltzman, klarinett.

IRIS Chamber Orchestra / Michael Stern.


Stephen Hartke

Klarinettkonsert "Landscapes with Blues"

1. Senegambia

2. Delta Nights

3. Philamayork



4. The Rose of the Winds

5. Gradus

6. Pacific Rim