Stamp: Chamber Music Vol. 2

Barcelona Clarinet Players;
North Texas Percussion Quartet

TOCC 0725

Celebrating his 70th birthday on March 5th, the American composer John Stamp (b. 1954) – universally known as ‘Jack’ – is a familiar figure in the worlds of the symphonic wind-band movement that flourishes in US universities and of the brass band on both sides of the Atlantic. When the Barcelona Clarinet Players asked him for a new work, and then proposed this album, he had to create the repertoire from scratch. The range of moods he has generated here is surprisingly wide, from gentle night-music that caresses the ear, via jaunty fugal textures and buoyant counterpoint, to catchy dance-rhythms that set the foot tapping.

Works:

•Stamp: Convergence for Clarinet Quartet and Percussion Quartet
• Stamp: Fragments
• Stamp: El Cariso: In Memoriam Bruce Leek for Clarinet Quartet
• Stamp: Love’s Philosophy, Song-Cycle for Soprano and Clarinet Quartet
• Stamp: Prelude 1983

CD

Muzyka klasyczna

Toccata Classics

05-03-2024

5060113447258