English clarinetist and composer Peter Furniss is a member of the European wind octet Improprera (a traveling company that improvises operas) and by August 2007 held a chair in at least three major British orchestras in addition to maintaining a busy schedule as a solo recitalist. Furniss favors a very even and silvery tone; one can hardly hear any breath in his playing, it is so clean. His second recital disc, Time Pieces for Clarinet Classics, is a wide-ranging selection of American works for clarinet and piano, including ...
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English clarinetist and composer Peter Furniss is a member of the European wind octet Improprera (a traveling company that improvises operas) and by August 2007 held a chair in at least three major British orchestras in addition to maintaining a busy schedule as a solo recitalist. Furniss favors a very even and silvery tone; one can hardly hear any breath in his playing, it is so clean. His second recital disc, Time Pieces for Clarinet Classics, is a wide-ranging selection of American works for clarinet and piano, including the world-premiere recordings of Michael Kaulkin's American Standard (1993) and Richard Dudas' Sonata (2004). Although chronologically the program is weighted toward selections from 1981 forward, none of this music is particularly difficult from a listening standpoint; perhaps the Dudas is the most challenging of all, mainly due to its angularity and fortissimo writing for the clarinet -- the music is mainly tonal. The title piece, by Robert Muczynski, is the most consistently...
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