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NEW CD: BRAHMS SONATAS AND TRIO

Stern des Monats (September)
Fono Forum, Ausgabe 10/09

Klassik - Tänzerisch

Die drei Stücke schrieb Brahms zusammen mit dem Quintett für Klarinette und Streichquartett für den Meininger Hofklarinettisten Richard Mühlfeld. Sie verkörpern 1891 bis 1894 den krönenden Höhepunkt und Abschluss seines kammermusikalischen Schaffens gleichermaßen. An die Interpreten stellen sie höchste Ansprüche an Souveränität und musikalischer Gestaltungskraft.
Mühlfelds Klarinetten sind erhalten, 1990 führte der Londoner Klarinettenprofessor Keith Puddy die Brahms-Sonaten auf den damals gerade restaurierten Instrumenten im Meininger Schloss auf. Puddy merkte unter anderem dazu an: „Um den leichten Klang und das helle Timbre der aus Buchsbaum gefertigten Instrumente zur Geltung zu bringen, vermied ich, den Ton zu forcieren und den modernen dicken und schweren Klang des späten 20. Jahrhunderts herauszuschinden. Mein Ziel war ein leichter Ton und eine freie Phrasierung.“ Es scheint fast so, als habe Sharon Kam diese Erkenntnis für ihre Brahms-Interpretationen verinnerlicht.
Das klingt alles leicht und frei schwingend, niemals dick oder schwerfällig. Vor allem die Sonaten kommen fast tänzerisch daher, wobei der musikalisch höchst einfühlsam agierende Martin Helmchen mit seiner subtilen Klanggestaltung ganz wesentliche Akzente setzt. Der Cellist Gustav Rivinius findet zur musikalischen Haltung des Duos Kam-Helmchen die adäquate Einstellung, wie die einleitenden Cello-Takte des Trios sofort zeigen. Herrlich hier die mit schier endlosem Atem geblasenen Kantilenen des Adagio, während ein vor allem von Sharon Kam ungemein temperamentvoll vorangetriebenes Allegro diese höchst empfehlenswerte CD beschließt.

Holger Arnold

Dienstag, 8. September 2009


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THE NEW DISCOVERY - JULIUS RIETZ CLARINET CONCERTO

In early April 2007 Sharon Kam travelled to Warsaw in order to record a new CD including deferent clarinet concertos by Carl Maria von Weber, Max Bruch and Julius Rietz. Sharon discovered The Rietz concerto earlier this year and it immediately became her favourite. Since this concerto is basically unknown, finding the score was quite difficult. After almost giving up the search, a Swiss amateur conductor came to the rescue with a score he had digitalized himself.. Now, Sharon Kam is working on getting this work published. Since placing the concerto on her website as part of her repertoire, she regularly receives requests for the score.

The recordings for the new CD took place in Warsaw, home of the famous Sinfonia Varsovia. Sharon Kam has already performed several times with this orchestra and was taken each time by the ensemble's highest quality of playing.

It is quite obvious who her favourite conductor is: of course her husband Gregor Buehl. Together they produced her recent, most successful CDs, which have been awarded the German Music Critics' Prize and the "ECHO Klassik" award for Best Instrumentalist of the Year.

But yet another family member took part in this production: Ori Kam, Sharon Kam's younger brother. He plays the viola solo part in Max Bruch's Double Concerto. Ori studied in New York with Pinchas Zukerman and has been living in Berlin for some time.

The choice of orchestra and the recording location, the auditorium of the state broadcasting services of Warsaw, turned out to be perfect. In just four days of intensive work, the emotional atmosphere of the music had been captured in audio perfection. At the end, all concerned, especially Sharon Kam, were very happy with the result. The Romantic Rietz concerto and the orchestral version of the Weber Quintet go wonderfully well with Max Bruch's Double Concerto. Special mention must be made to the harmonious music-making of brother and sister. But the only real surprise on this CD is, however, the almost unknown concerto by Mendelssohn contemporary Julius Rietz- an unexpected Romantic gem.



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MOZART 2006 LIVE ON TV AND DVD!

                                             
                   
        
As part of the 24 hour Mozart project, Sharon Kam performed in a live television broadcast of the Mozart clarinet concerto
from the Estates Theatre in Prag. In this theater Mozart's friend and inspiration, the clarinetist Anton Stadler,
premiered the clarinet concereto on October 16, 1791. Stadler used  his self-constructed instument,
a Basset Clarinet,  which is an extended clarinet with 4 additional halftones, going down to a written low C, sounding A.

       
Sharon Kam used a Basset Clarinet for this concert. You can view the video by pressing the following links:
  
        
Mozart- Concerto for clarinet and Orchestra in A major, K.622-  1. Allegro

Mozart- Concerto for clarinet and Orchestra in A major, K.622-  2. Adagio

Mozart- Concerto for clarinet and Orchestra in A major, K.622-  3. Rondo:  Allegro

If you are having trouble viewing these files (they are very large) and need smaller files, please try the links HERE

If you don't have Quicktime installed, you can get it HERE
  
                      
This production is released on DVD.   BUY IT NOW
                          
 

SHARON KAM RECIEVES THE ECHO KLASSIK 2006 PRIZE!

Once more, Sharon Kam receives the ECHO Klassik prize „instrumentalist of the year“, this time for her great achievement as clarinettist on the album "Works for clarinet & Orchestra" on the label edel classics.

This virtuoso program contains  Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's Two Concert Pieces for Clarinet, Basset Horn and
Orchestra, op. 113 and op. 114, Louis Spohr's Concerto Nr. 4 in e minor, Carl Maria von Weber's Concertino op. 26
and Gioachino Rossini's Introduction, Theme and Variations. 


   
With Johannes Peitz, basset clarinet and the MDR Symphony Orchestra Leipzig, conducted by Gregor Buehl.
       


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© Copyright Gregor Bühl 2002