VA - Eduard Brunner - Dal niente

An invigorating journey over the landscape of modern music, Swiss clarinettist Eduard Brunner's solo recital is a tour-de-force of extended technique and high musicality applied to intensely-demanding composition. Brunner's album is titled after Helmut Lachenmann's Dal niente (out of nothing) whose sounds bleed into and out of the resonant silence of the church of St. Gerold. Where Lachenmann's concluding piece calls for nothing less than a new way of hearing, the Isang Yun composition that opens the programme is a deeply moving assertion of the inviolability of the human spirit which has its genesis in the two years that Yun spent in a South Korean prison under sentence of death. The recital also includes a hitherto unpublished Stravinsky miniature alongside the well-known Three Pieces for clarinet, Boulez's daunting Domaines, some brightly optimistic Stockhausen, and Scelsi's shadowy Preghiera per un'ombra. BBC Music Magazine: "Although a disc comprising 70 minutes of 20th century music for clarinet might be thought to appeal to enthusiasts only, there is such an enormous range of sounds contained within these pieces that one's attention is held throughout.

Isang Yun

1 Piri 10:13


Igor Stravinsky

Three Pieces For Clarinet Solo
2 I 1:30
3 II 1:08
4 III 1:19

5 Piece For Clarinet Solo (Dedicated To Pablo Picasso) 0:29


Pierre Boulez

Domaines Pour Clarinette Seule
6 Cahier A Original 0:42
7 Cahier D Original 0:59
8 Cahier F Original 2:28
9 Cahier E Original 0:57
10 Cahier B Original 1:37
11 Cahier C Original 0:53
12 Cahier C Miroir 0:57
13 Cahier D Miroir 1:04
14 Cahier E Miroir 1:02
15 Cahier A Miroir 0:54
16 Cahier B Miroir 1:21
17 Cahier F Miroir 2:27


Karlheinz Stockhausen

18 In Freundschaft 12:24


Giacinto Scelsi

19 Preghiera Per Un'Ombra 10:54


Helmut Lachenmann

20 Dal Niente (Interiéur III) 16:15


Total time 70:30


Eduard Brunner, clarinet

Recorded October 1995 at Propstei St. Gerold

Released: 1997