With such diverse output as her world music album Where Rivers Meet an evocation of her Bengali connections, with clarinettist brother Idris and the thrilling jazz virtuosity of her trio's recent live recording, pianist Zoe Rahman covers plenty of contemporary bases. ❋ Unknown (2012)
He's just been appointed as a probationer to the solo clarinet job at the Phil – which is just about the biggest orchestral job you could bag as a clarinettist. ❋ Unknown (2011)
I first came across him on a 1997 ECM New Series CD, Dal Niente by clarinettist Eduard Brunner, which involves a sparse, spiralling series of solo clarinet pieces composed by the likes of Stockhausen, Stravinsky and Boulez, as well as by Lachenmann. ❋ Paul Morley (2010)
It was written for the phenomenal Finnish clarinettist Kari Kriikku, for whom Saariaho has wanted to compose a concerto for many years, and was inspired by the medieval tapestries of The Lady And The Unicorn series. ❋ Andrew Clements (2010)
But late in this Grammy-nominated singer's 40-year career, she has found perhaps the most compatible setting of her life in a sublime trio with young Italian pianist Glauco Venier and German soprano saxist and bass clarinettist Klaus Gesing. ❋ Unknown (2011)
In 1945, Moura's family moved to Rio de Janeiro, where the young clarinettist began studying at the Escola nacional de música, now the Escola de música da UFRJ. ❋ Unknown (2010)
"No matter where he was playing, he always maintained the same posture and this just added to his elegance," said Gonçalves, who was at Moura's bedside as the clarinettist played the choro classic Doce de Coco shortly before his death. ❋ Unknown (2010)
A Grammy award-winning clarinettist, saxophonist and composer, he blurred the lines between classical and popular music, recording more than 40 albums which journeyed between dancehall, samba, bossa nova, jazz and orchestral music. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Marthe and Kurt delve deeper into the heart of what makes the city tick, but at the cost of their own relationship; Kid Hogan, an African American jazz clarinettist, finds love and corruption in the city's music halls; and the marginalised, the exploited, the Jews, the Communists, the unemployed, all have their stories at least illuminated if not necessarily told. ❋ Nwhyte (2008)
Finnish composers seem to queue up, in very orderly fashion I'm sure, to write concertos for the clarinettist Kari Kriikku. ❋ Andrew Clements (2010)
In one movement we hear recordings of the musicians 'voices as they played their virtuosic solos: here was the French horn player who wished he was a clarinettist; the contra-bassoonist who adores playing "low notes all day long"; the cellist who says of the audience, "the more they listen, the better we play". ❋ Unknown (2010)
This set, featuring clarinettist Perry Robinson (one of the few modern-jazz practitioners of his instrument) might suggest that at first. ❋ Unknown (2010)
This year's competition was won by clarinettist Mark Sampson. ❋ Jessica (2006)
Nick Daniel, oboist, is still top of his profession; Emma Johnson, ace clarinettist, is still top of hers, but still carries the YM proviso. ❋ Jessica (2006)
Her gaze dwelt on him, and she thought of the generations of hardy Icelanders, and Danes before them, that had laboured to bring forth this type: men and women who scratched a living from the thin soil of upland farms; fishermen who hunted cod in steel-grey waters; women who struggled to keep their children alive on dried fish and oatmeal; and now, at the end of all this effort, a clarinettist. ❋ Unknown (2004)
The musicians here are from a band called The Free Jazz Workshop one of the earliest recordings with French clarinettist Louis Sclavis wich is, despite its name, not free jazz at all on this record. ❋ Unknown (2005)
A few highlights were the very, very young clarinettist Julian Bliss playing Saint-Saens's incredibly beautiful clarinet sonata of 1921 sounds 100 years earlier, Josh Bell pulling out the pyrotechnics in the Rondo Capriccioso and, of course, Carnival of the Animals, complete with Ogden Nash verses suitably doctored for the occasion: When a clarinettist leaves the stage ❋ Jessica (2004)
