# Brahms-Glanert · Detlev Glanert: Four Preludes and Serious Songs · Distant Land (Music with Brahms for Orchestra) · Brahms-Berio · Op. 120 No. 1 (Clarinet Sonata No. 1 for clarinet and orchestra by Luciano Berio)

> Brahms-Glanert · Detlev Glanert: Four Preludes and Serious Songs · Distant Land (Music with Brahms for…. Ondine ODE 1263-2, CD, released January 2017.

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- **Composer:** Brahms-Glanert · Detlev Glanert
- **Work(s):** Four Preludes and Serious Songs · Distant Land (Music with Brahms for Orchestra) · Brahms-Berio · Op. 120 No. 1 (Clarinet Sonata No. 1 for clarinet and orchestra by Luciano Berio)
- **Performers:** Michael Nagy, baritone; Kari Kriikku, clarinet; Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra; Olari Elts, conductor
- **Label:** Ondine
- **Catalogue no.:** ODE 1263-2
- **Format:** CD
- **Release date:** 1 January 2017
- **EAN / UPC:** 0761195126325
- **Tracks:** 14, total 58:33
- **Genres:** Instrumental, Vocal, Orchestral

## Track listing

**Detlev Glanert**

- *Brahms-Glanert: Four Preludes and Serious Songs*
1. Präludium zu Nr. 1 (2:04)
2. I Denn es gehet dem Menschen (4:15)
3. Präludium zu Nr. 2 (1:49)
4. II Ich wandte mich (3:32)
5. Präludium zu Nr. 3 (1:35)
6. III O Tod, wie bitter bist du (3:08)
7. Präludium zu Nr. 4 (2:03)
8. IV Wenn ich mit Menschen- und Engelszungen redete (4:02)
9. Postludium (1:55)
10. Music with Brahms for Orchestra (11:25)

**Luciano Berio**

- *Brahms-Berio: Op. 120 No. 1, Sonata No. 1 for clarinet and orchestra*
11. I Allegro appasionato (8:04)
12. II Andante un poco adagio (5:47)
13. III Allegretto grazioso (3:45)
14. IV Vivace (5:09)

## About this recording

This Ondine recording includes a fascinating programme: Luciano Berio’s

(1925–2003) iconic adaptation of Johannes Brahms’ (1833–1897) Clarinet

Sonata No. 1 combined with Detlev Glanert’s (b. 1960) recent arrangement of

Brahms’ late vocal masterpiece, Four Serious Songs. Also included is

Glanert’s new orchestral work Weites Land (2013) written in the spirit of

Brahms. This disc includes as its soloists award-winning clarinetist Kari

Kriikku and German baritone Michael Nagy. This is the second Ondine

release of Estonian conductor Olari Elts together with the Helsinki

Philharmonic Orchestra.

Detlev Glanert (b. 1960) was, like Brahms, born in Hamburg. A pupil of

Diether de la Motte and Hans Werner Henze, Glanert has long felt a deep

connection with Brahms’ music through “a specific North German tradition, in

which I believe myself to be connected with Brahms, to do with a melancholy

in his pieces, with a certain severity.” Melancholy and severity dominate the

Four Serious Songs (1896), Brahms’ final set. Glanert’s Four Preludes and

Serious Songs (the orchestrated Songs may be performed separately) were

created in 2004 and they were premiered complete in the Marienkirche in

Prenzlau on June 25th 2005 by the baritone Dietrich Henschel and the

Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester Berlin conducted by Kent Nagano. Glanert’s

Weites Land was written in 2013. It is not a transcription but a fully

independent, original work written, as it were, with Brahms’ Fourth

Symphony firmly in view: the thematic and harmonic material originates from

the first eight notes of the symphony and is developed through a single

movement running to nearly twelve minutes.

Luciano Berio (1925–2003) was commissioned by the Los Angeles

Philharmonic Orchestra in 1986 to provide an orchestral version of the first of

the two late sonatas Brahms composed in 1894, two years prior to the Serious

Songs. Berio created a 25-minute concerto, although retaining the designation

‘Sonata’. Berio’s treatment of Brahms’ was highly respectful and

straightforward and the solo part is almost identical with the original sonata.

## Features

Sleeve notes in English and Finnish

Lyrics in German and English

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## Related pages

- [Detlev Glanert (1960)](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/composers/glanert-detlev.md)
- [Luciano Berio (1925-2003)](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/composers/berio-luciano.md)
- [Michael Nagy, baritone](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/artists/nagy-michael.md)
- [Kari Kriikku, clarinet](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/artists/kriikku-kari.md)
- [Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Ensemble](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/artists/helsinki-philharmonic-orchestra.md)
- [Olari Elts, Conductor](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/artists/elts-olari.md)

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