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Clarinet Brahms Mendelssohn Baermann Glinka Milhaud Kathron Sturrock of Sound from the Current English One and I Found J.F clarinet Brahms Mendelssohn Baermann Glinka Milhaud Kathron Sturrock of sound from the current English one and I found J.F. Clarinet The clarinet is a descendant of a Julian, we are long-standing friends and colleagues this very liberating. Well, the tenor Beniamino Gigli because he always primitive one octave instrument called the cha- and of course you are a founder member of the used his free colourful sound in such an uninhibited lumeau. Around 1700, J. C. Denner is attributed with Fibonaccis – but I realise there is a lot I don’t know K.S. manner, and the pianist Radu Lupu for the way in altering the tube and key work of the instrument to about your musical background … did you come So sound is something you pay particular attention which he creates a definitive performance so unob- enable it to play higher with better intonation and from a musical family? to in your own teaching? trusively. I toured with him on many occasions and quality. This improved chalumeau was quickly taken was always mesmerised by the natural simplicity of up, its high notes being noted for their trumpet-like Julian Farrell J.F. his expression. tone and in Italy it became known as the clarinetto No, not at all. In fact, I only really discovered music Yes, absolutely – in fact, in my opinion, your sound or small clarino (trumpet). when I was at secondary school. It was a very and the way you control it is far and away the most K.S. important part of the syllabus and you had to give important thing for any musician. It is what carries Many people won’t know that you have yourself a Improvements to the instrument continued and by up an academic subject if you wanted to take up the emotion in the music to the audience … and beautiful tenor voice. I remember coming to Covent the middle of the 18th century there was a place for a musical instrument! So I gave up geography and the most important factor in producing your sound, Garden to hear you sing solo in a Rameau opera. You the clarinet in many of Europe’s leading orchestras. took up the clarinet at the age of 15, which was quite far more important than your instrument, is your might say this is a way you relax in music – what However, it was as a result of Mozart’s relationship late really, and when I went to the Royal College of inner ear – imagining how the audience will respond other things would you call your hobbies? with the Austrian clarinet virtuoso Anton Stadler that Music a couple of years later there was quite a bit of to the way your tone shapes and colours the next the instrument became truly established. Mozart theory and so on to catch up on. phrase. J.F. likened the tone of Stadler’s clarinet to that of the I absolutely love cooking – something I have got into human voice and it was for him that he wrote the K.S. K.S. more and more – and I also play tennis a lot – and clarinet quintet and concerto – generally regarded Who was your teacher there? … and this is easier to do in chamber music than in I have two small granddaughters who give me an as the greatest pieces for wind instruments ever an orchestra? added perspective on life. written. J.F. I was very lucky to have had Sidney Fell as my main J.F. K.S. Around the middle of the 19th century, the French teacher, although I also had lessons with Thea King Well of course, in chamber music you have a much Well, Julian, it has been a great pleasure to sit down clarinettist Hyacinthe Klosé adapted the flute’s who later on became a colleague and had a great more personal input – not often possible in a big and have a chat with you. We must do this again Boehm system to the clarinet with the help of Louis- influence on me. symphony orchestra although in smaller bands sometime … August Buffet and the distinctly different school of you are sometimes allowed more room. I have French clarinet playing emerged. Today the Boehm K.S. been lucky in my career to have been associated J.F. clarinet is the most widely used but the older Having been at RCM together, we met up again as with chamber orchestras (like the English Chamber Yes, we really should make more time for nice German school of playing still flourishes and you students in Vienna … Orchestra, and The Orchestra of St John’s). social occasions like this, away from rehearsing and can hear a wide variety of style and tone worldwide. concerts! J.F. K.S. I play a Buffet clarinet, although my concept of tone Yes, and it was in Vienna that my life-long obsession Can you give me a couple of examples of musi- was undoubtedly influenced by the two years I spent for tone production really came into focus. The Vien- cians who have influenced you? You have already studying in Vienna. nese school had a completely different conception mentioned Thea King. — Julian Farrell Page 1 Page 2 Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) Heinrich Baermann (1784-1847) Italy in 1832 when he was depressed and suffering Trio in A minor Op.114 Adagio for clarinet and string quintet from homesickness; the caption above the score is operatic in itself, and reads “I have only known love Historically, composers have often been inspired to Heinrich Baermann was a fine clarinettist who through the misery it causes”. write for the brilliance and genius of specific per- profoundly influenced the development of clarinet formers. Rostropovitch, Heifitz, Lionel Tertis, James technique, as a result of which many eminent Darius Milhaud (1892-1974) Galway and Evelyn Glennie, for example, have composers, including Mendelssohn and Weber, Suite d’après Corrette been the inspiration behind many a 20th century wrote ground-breaking romantic works for him. masterpiece. Brahms’ four late compositions for Baermann was also a respected composer but did The suite originated as music for a French language clarinet, the two sonatas, the quintet and this trio, not always find it easy to get his work heard or production of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, were written for Richard Mühlfeld, whom Brahms published. Wagner much admired this Adagio, part staged in Paris in 1937. Milhaud’s inspiration was described as ‘the greatest master of his instrument’. of Baermann’s third clarinet quintet, and in order for the early 18th century composer Michel Corrette. According to Sir Francis Tovey, Brahms intended the it to see the light of day agreed to publish it under In its non-stage form the music takes the shape of beautiful cello theme at the start of the trio as the his own name. a neo-Baroque suite of dance pieces, flanked and opening of a fifth symphony, and the whole trio has interspersed with descriptive movements such a symphonic breadth and span. The expression is Mikhail Ivanovitch Glinka (1803-1857) as the Fanfare, the gentle Serenade, and the witty warm, generous and direct, and its clarity wonder- Trio Pathétique Cuckoo finale. fully illustrates Brahms’ much quoted maxim: ‘If we cannot write as beautifully as Mozart or Haydn, let Mikhail Ivanovitch Glinka, best known for his opera us at least write as purely’. A Life for the Tsar, was the first composer to bring an authentic Russian voice to Russian music – music Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) that had hitherto been widely influenced by German Konzertstück in D minor Op. 114 and Italian culture. He was also the first person to train seriously as a composer, thus breaking the Julian Farrell studied at the Royal College of Music and at The Felix Mendelssohn wrote two concert pieces for tradition of the dilettante musician. Much of his Akadamie für Music und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna. He has Heinrich Baermann and his son Carl who, during the chamber music was written at a time in his career played with most of London’s leading orchestras and ensembles first half of the nineteenth century, were considered when he was still concerned with outer polish and as well as being a long-time member of the English Chamber the most accomplished players in Europe. In 1832 brilliance, and the Trio Pathétique owes much to the Orchestra, the Orchestra of St. John’s, Smith Square, and for the pair met Mendelssohn while on tour in Berlin florid italianate style. However, his lifelong passion twenty-five years principal clarinet with the Academy of St. and became close friends. The Konzertstück was for opera is already manifest in the Trio alongside Martin-in-the-Fields. As a founder member of The Fibonacci composed in January 1833 and is full of the humour the sparkling decoration, in its lyrical melodies, Sequence he has made several acclaimed recordings including and youthful exuberance that is so often associated its drama and above all in the intensely romantic recent releases of the Schubert Octet and Messiaen’s Quartet with Mendelssohn’s work. coloratura of the slow movement. It was written in for the End of Time. Other recordings of note include the Mozart Clarinet Quintet with the Delmé String Quartet. He has been on the staff of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama since 1985. Page 3 Page 4 www.fibsonline.co.uk Also available from The Fibonacci Sequence: Harp Oboe festival of chamber music in West Cumbria, suc- Harpist Gillian Tingay This CD highlights the cessfully inaugurated by the Fibonacci Sequence leads this programme oboe in the chamber Now in its eighteenth year, the Fibonacci Sequence in June 2010.
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