The Clarinet Trio plus Alexey Kruglov: Live in Moscow
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| Live album by Jürgen Kupke , Michael Thieke , Gebhard Ullmann | ||||
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| Label (s) | Leo Records | |||
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CD |
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8th |
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55:01 |
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Leo Feigin , Gehhard Ullmann |
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Russian Academy of Theater Arts , Moscow |
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The Clarinet Trio plus Alexey Kruglov: Live in Moscow is a live album of the formation The Clarinet Trio , which consists of clarinetists Jürgen Kupke , Michael Thieke and Gebhard Ullmann . When the group performed at the Moscow Russian Academy of Theater Arts on November 5, 2013, the alto saxophonist Alexey Kruglov joined in the second half of the concert . The recording was released on Leo Records in June 2017 . The Clarinet Trio's fifth album (since 1998) was released to celebrate Gebhard Ullman's 60th birthday and was dedicated to the musician and producer Walter Quintus , who died in the same year .
Music of the album
Musically, the album "illuminates the expressive possibilities of the instruments", in moments of collective improvisation, composed and improvised passages, in a continuous change of roles. There are references to the music of the Rova Saxophone Quartet . The lively title “Dreierlei” is followed by the atmospheric, blues- tinged “Blaues Viertel”, in which Ullmann first sets the rhythm, above which Kupke and Thieke take a standpoint of the avant-garde as a soloist “regardless of the title”. In “Seven 9-8” Jürgen Kupke explores the technical and espressive possibilities of his instrument. In the second part of the concert, Kruglov borrows from Roscoe Mitchell's expressions on the alto saxophone when collective improvisation occurs in “Collective No.9 (Part 1-4)”.
Track list
- The Clarinet Trio Plus Alexey Kruglov - Live in Moscow (Leo Records - CD LR 781)
- Variations on smoke and moder (Ullmann) - 6:20
- Three things (Ullmann) - 6:11
- Blue Quarter (Ullmann) - 6:46
- Seven 9-8 (Ullmann) - 8:51
- Collective No.9 (Part 1 - 4) (Ullmann, Kupke, Thieke, Kruglov) - 6:15
- Small figures No.2 (Ullmann) - 3:25
- Animal voices ( Hermann Keller ) - 2:50
- News? No news! (Ullmann) - 14:23
reception
In his review, Massimo Ricci compared the music on the album with a family reunion, in which each member of the group expresses his or her opinion: “In the case of the clarinetists Jürgen Kupke, Michael Thieke and Gebhard Ullmann, we discover a lot of meaningful fragments of conversation, embedded in a mutual agreement that you never risk turning to pointless chatter. ”The author sees the role of saxophonist Alexey Kruglov, who joins halfway through the concert, in the sense of“ family logic ”in that he is interested in a kind of disjunctive perspective, Exchange opposing opinions. His phrasing does not, however, interrupt the very essence of the collective game. The emotions would be kept under control, but the music is fresh enough to show the implications of a constant creative process. The humor is not neglected either, as in “Animal Voices”. The technical mastery is also impressive, especially with regard to the ability of the four musicians to keep virtuosity within limits. This includes keeping the dissonant characteristics of the interaction under control. Ultimately, Kupke, Thieke, Ullmann and Kruglov show who is responsible, and with clever precision establish order as soon as the juices of a sterile anarchy start to boil too violently.
"As much as listening to ambitious music is sometimes a sporting challenge," wrote Stefan Peiper in the jazz newspaper , "you get so much refreshing added value if you boldly engage in something like this!" [...] “We know about the structuring power of ostinati and polyphonic entanglements. Chains are woven from something like this, from which melodic patterns split off in crazy turns. These players know which question and exclamation points the collective sound speech needs at the right moment. In any case, the Clarinet Trio proves how well three clarinets with their rich pitch range and tonal potential cover all the requirements of a consistent band sound. It works so well because Ulmann, Thieke and Kupke have not known any technical and expressive limits on their instruments for 20 years. The art of improvisation on the high bar over Asian pentatonic scales or choruses with an African feel once again testify to the superior sophistication of the world. Molto accelerando , these players maintain quite a few playful dialogues with formulas, phrases and tone sequences. ”Concerning Hermann Keller's composition“ Animalic Voices ”, the author concluded:“ Some of them could have been eavesdropped by Olivier Messiaen directly. Shrill original sounds seem like Dadaist sound poetry when the four simply put their horns in the corner and continue alone on the mouthpieces . "
The author of the Italian blog Music Zoom praised: “The match works perfectly. The collective improvisation in Collective No. 9 (Part 1-4) can be seen as a fine example of an infinite tonal possibility that is available to such a formation. The long news? No news , more than 14 minutes, in which the empathy in the performance between the musicians is perfect, ends the album. "
Individual evidence
- ^ Information from Leo Records
- ^ A b The Clarinet Trio plus Alexey Kruglov: Live in Moscow. Music Zoom, May 2, 2017, accessed February 18, 2018 (Italian).
- ↑ Massimo Ricci: The Clarinet Trio plus Alexey Kruglov: Live in Moscow. Touching Extremes, December 18, 2017, accessed February 18, 2018 .
- ↑ Stefan Pieper: CD review: The Clarinet Trio feat. Alexey Kruglov - Live in Moscow. Jazzzeitung , June 26, 2017, accessed on February 18, 2018 .