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Latest News "THE AUDIENCE WAS IMMEDIATELY ON THEIR FEET FOR A STANDING OVATION"Hollywood Today and Los Angeles Times reviews Fröst´s Debut with Los Angeles Philharmonic ”There are just not enough superlatives to describe the amazing performance of Martin Frost. He is certainly the reigning exponent of the clarinet today with a performance style totally unique and technically astounding. Entering the stage in a white piped outlined suit looking like a character from Tron, he mesmerized the audience in a composition written for him by the brilliant composer Kalave Aho Some of the technical effects he accomplishes with his instrument seem impossible and are played effortlessly. Harmonics and double stop sounds turn the clarinet into an other worldly instrument. The piece begins with the movement, Tempestoso, a dramatic and long movement with unison string writing with a gorgeous middle section. This is followed by a virtuoso cadenza for solo clarinet that tests the possibilities of the instrument. Frost is one of the true rock stars of the classical world. The clarinetists in the orchestra told me afterwards that they could not believe what he can do on this instrument. The Vivace was a technical firework with constant tempo and meter changes that was a challenge for the conductor also. For both artists however, it was a piece of cake. The following Adagio was beautiful with incredible sound effects reminding one of desert music. Last in the work was the Epilogo (Misterioso) that ended with broken sounds in the clarinet fading away to silence. The audience was immediately on their feet for a standing ovation. This was rewarded by a fantastic encore with both soloist and orchestra of a Klezmer piece that was arranged for clarinet and orchestra by the brother of Martin. This was also a brilliant performance played in a lightning tempo and I hope that he will return to this stage often in the future.” Hollywood Today ”The fast parts were what dazzled, thanks to the virtuosity of the clarinet writing and of Fröst's performance.. Intermission talk, though, was all about Fröst’s tonguing, which is the fastest in the West. Aho’s concerto is a 28-minute show piece for the Swedish clarinetist. ..his playing, went through a dazzling panoply of clarinet special effects, tricks with fingers, lips and tongue. One wow moment followed the next.” Los Angeles Times FRÖST PERFORMS WITH LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC Conductor Osmo Vänskä and clarinettist Martin Fröst are in Los Angeles this week for performances with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Following a successful series of concerts together in Tokyo, Vänskä and Frost share their acclaimed performance of Aho’s Clarinet Concerto with US audiences. Vänskä, a celebrated interpreter of Sibelius, will also be conducting the composer’s Symphony No. 6 as well as Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier Suite. THE CLARINET TURNS CARTWHEELS In the concerts of the clarinetist Martin Fröst, the conventional rocks. He put a spell on the Luzern audience. "Very rarely does the clarient get to establish itself so exaltedly as in Anders Hillborgs Peacock Tales. ....... Martin Fröst was the guest of the Luzern Symphony Orchestra with the extrordinary composition on Wednesday and Thursday. The Swede is considered the most complete clarinetist, also visually, with engaging artistic presence and an incomparable technical supremacy. His compatriot Anders Hillborg has written the Peacock Tales in 1998 as if it was tailored specially for him. However, with all the skills required for such experimental art forms, all the forceful soundmaking of the instrument, Fröst expresses his rich clarinet tone and his mastery of frasing most fully in the conventional repertoire: a wonderful example of this being Debussy´s Première Rhapsodie." Neue Luzerner Zeitung FRÖST IN HAMBURG The newspaper compares Martin Fröst to star soprano Cecilia Bartoli, who is capable of doing this with her voice: Martin Fröst manages to produce this magic on the clarinet.” After a fantastic Vinterfest in lovely winter setting with sold out concerts all through the festival, Martin Fröst brought a sample of his festival programme to Hamburg for his audience in the Laeizehalle to enjoy! According to the Hamburg press, the concert was a dream and the Hamburger Abendblatt points out how rare it is to experience how a sound appears out of nowhere – “how a note is whispered to life from silence and despite minimal volume, like a little bonsai tree, is showing all the characteristics of a mature sound”. The newspaper compares Martin Fröst to star soprano Cecilia Bartoli, who is capable of doing this with her voice: “Martin Fröst manages to produce this magic on the clarinet.” |
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