ALC 0106 - German Sonatas for Clarinet & Piano

The proposed repertoire crosses some symbolic thresholds in the evolution of the clarinet sonata during the German 19th century. The Sonata in B flat major op. 47 by Franz Danzi (1763-1826) was composed in 1818 in a Bavarian context. The first movement is an allegro that uses material as elementary as it is dynamic, focusing mainly on agogic darting rather than lyrical research. The second movement is an andante with a cantabile and arpeggiated conduction, while the final movement exploits material with a Turkish flavour, chromatic motifs, and one of the most lyrical piano sequences in the piece. Overall, Danzi's piece is inscribed in the ambience of research - of Beethovenian influence - on motivic elaboration oriented towards the maximum unfolding of the potential of minimal cells.