This review highlights the technical brilliance and accessibility of the concertos, showcasing the talent of both the soloist and the orchestra. It emphasizes the importance of these works in contemporary classical music.

(Signum) With Taavi Oramo (also a clarinettist) conducting the BBC Scottish Symphony, Bliss is virtuosic in these two technically demanding but approachable concertosComposed just a few years apart, these impressive Finnish clarinet concertos were inspired by the playing of two of the finest clarinettists of our time, both Nordic. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2013/apr/16/contemporary-music-guide-magnus-lindberg">Magnus Lindberg’s</a> concerto was composed in 2002 for his friend Kari Kriikku, while <a href="https://fennicagehrman.fi/composer/aho-kalevi/">Kalevi Aho’s</a> work was commissioned for the Swedish player Martin Fröst, who gave the first performance in London in 2006.In some respects, the two pieces are strikingly similar; both are cast in five movements, and both make enormous demands on the soloist, which include multiphonics, passage-work that requires fearsomely accurate articulation, and sustained passages in the highest, most treacherous register of their instruments. Both works are wonderfully approachable, though Aho’s work is the less adventurous, his orchestral writing more motoric, his gestures more rhetorical and fundamentally tonal than Lindberg’s, in which references to earlier clarinet solos, from Debussy to Gershwin, are cunningly secreted. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/aug/29/lindberg-aho-clarinet-concertos-album-review-julian-blisss-performances-are-immaculate">Continue reading...</a>

تسلط هذه المراجعة الضوء على البراعة التقنية وسهولة الوصول إلى الكونشيرتو، مما يظهر موهبة كل من العازف المنفرد والأوركسترا. وتؤكد على أهمية هذه الأعمال في الموسيقى الكلاسيكية المعاصرة.

تُوصف أداءات جوليان بليس لمؤلفات الكونشيرتو الفنلندية للكلارينيت، تحت قيادة تافي أورامو مع أوركسترا بي بي سي الاسكتلندية، بأنها مثالية وبارعة.

Esta reseña destaca el brillante técnica y la accesibilidad de los conciertos, mostrando el talento tanto del solista como de la orquesta. Subraya la importancia de estas obras en la música clásica contemporánea.

Las interpretaciones de Julian Bliss de los conciertos finlandeses para clarinete, dirigidas por Taavi Oramo con la BBC Scottish Symphony, se describen como inmaculadas y virtuosas.

Cette critique met en avant le brillant technique et l'accessibilité des concertos, montrant le talent à la fois du soliste et de l'orchestre. Elle souligne l'importance de ces œuvres dans la musique classique contemporaine.

Les performances de Julian Bliss des concertos finlandais pour clarinette, dirigées par Taavi Oramo avec le BBC Scottish Symphony, sont décrites comme immaculées et virtuoses.

Julian Bliss's performances of the Finnish clarinet concertos, conducted by Taavi Oramo with the BBC Scottish Symphony, are described as immaculate and virtuosic.

Lindberg & Aho: Clarinet Concertos album review – Julian Bliss’s performances are immaculate

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