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Solo Alone And More

Solo Alone And More

Release - August 11. 2023

SOLO ALONE AND MORE is the first portrait album to present the young clarinet virtuoso Jonas Frølund in an hour-long musical journey of works showcasing the instrument beloved and ennobled by composers since Mozart’s time. For this album, Frølund selected and perfected a program of works written within the last 100 years.
When planning this album, Frølund had three goals in mind — to present himself as a musician with a distinctive vision; to present the clarinet “family” from treble to bass, starting with the familiar concert instruments in Bb and A to the alto (basset) and the bass; and, finally, to present all of the above in music written during a century of New Music, spanning from immediately after WW1 to literally a few months before the recordings took place in June 2021 . . . that is, with one exception: a certain perennially ‘new’ woodwind solo from a mid-19th century German opera that many observers regard as the mother of all Modern Music - Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde. All the music presented on this album is played on a solo clarinet . . . again, with one exception: in the De Profundis by Simon Steen-Andersen, where the soloist multitasks on a number of percussion instruments as well.
Frølund studied at The Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen and at the Conservatoire de Paris, and is in high demand as a soloist and chamber musician. He is co-founder of the prize-winning wind quintet V Coloris, and is currently principal clarinet of the Danish Chamber Orchestra under Adam Fischer. In 2021 he took the clarinet world by storm at the international ClarinetFest in a performance described as “electrifying,” leaving the audience wanting more, - and his performance of the Mozart Clarinet Concerto with Fischer and the Danish Chamber Orchestra was featured on the BBC Radio 3 Afternoon Concert.
Recorded in the DXD audio by one of Denmark’s most distinguished audio masters, Mette Due.

Reviews

Solo Alone And More

November 24, 2023

Great 5 stars review in Kulturen. nu

Evanthore Vestergård

Solo Alone And More

October 10, 2023

Great review in Leading Danish Newspaper Information

Valdemar Lønsted

Solo Alone And More

October 5, 2023

POV International

Jens Carl Sanderhoff

Solo Alone And More

September 29, 2023

Klassik Heute gives 10/10/10 to SOLO ALONE AND MORE

Thomas Baack

Solo Alone And More

September 15, 2023

Great Gramophone review

Mark Pullinger

Solo Alone And More

September 10, 2023

5 stars review in Fanfare (6)


Colin Clarke

Solo Alone And More

September 2, 2023

Fanfare 5 stars review

Allison Eck

Solo Alone And More

September 2, 2023

Interview in Fanfare with Jonas Frølund

Allison Eck

Solo Alone And More

August 29, 2023

Fanfare 4 Stars review

Huntley Dent

Solo Alone And More

August 27, 2023

5 stars review in Danish Newspaper Politiken

Thomas Michelsen

Solo Alone And More

August 25, 2023

5 stars review in Fanfare (6)

Peter Burwasser

Solo Alone And More

August 23, 2023

Seismograf (DK)Klarinettens længsel hos vidt forskellige komponister.

Jeppe Rønnov

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