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	Cyrille Rose, Sean Osborn 32 Etudes for Clarinet Genres: New Age, Classical Track Listings (1) - Disc #1 32 Etudes Cyrille Rose was one of the most respected clarinet performers of the 19th century. A student of Hyacinthe Klose at the Paris Conservatory, he won the First Prize in clarinet in 1847. Rose taught there from 1876 to 1900. F... more » « less
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All Artists: Cyrille Rose, Sean Osborn
Title: 32 Etudes for Clarinet
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Label: Albany Records
Original Release Date: 1/1/2007
Re-Release Date: 4/3/2007
Genres: New Age, Classical
Styles: Instrumental, Chamber Music, Historical Periods, Classical (c.1770-1830)
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 034061092728

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Cyrille Rose was one of the most respected clarinet performers of the 19th century. A student of Hyacinthe Klose at the Paris Conservatory, he won the First Prize in clarinet in 1847. Rose taught there from 1876 to 1900. From 1857 to 1891 he served as clarinetist at the Paris Opera. Renowned especially for his insistence on careful phrasing, many of his students went on to win first prizes. Today, Rose is remembered for his series of clarinet etudes, most of them arrangements of earlier works for other instruments. This CD presents his best-known collection, the Thirty-Two Etudes. Rose based all but one of these studies on Franz Wilhelm Ferling s Forty-Eight Etudes for Oboe, Op. 31. He generally preserved the outline of Ferling s original etude, but transposed the key and made alterations at times in the melody, rhythm and articulations to render the pieces stylistically idiomatic for the clarinet. His goal was to develop control and good phrasing in the performer. They are in the keys of C, G, F, D, B-flat, A, E-flat, E, B, and D-flat Major, plus a, e, d, b, g and c minor. During his eleven years with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Sean Osborn traveled throughout the United States and the world. He has also appeared as guest principal clarinet with the New York Philharmonic, Pittsburgh Symphony, Seattle Symphony and the American Symphony Orchestra. Currently clarinet teacher at the University of Washington, he is also an award-winning composer.

CD Reviews

Gramophone Review

Feanor | 08/03/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Grammophone Magazine, September 2007 issue, North American section

Top of section: "Stimulating Studies"

Title: Study pieces for clarinet? But listen on; the experience is delightful.

Cyrille Rose - 32 Etudes for Clarinet

It might sound like the biggest bore to listen to a clarinettist play etudes. But Sean Osborn proves otherwise. He is a player of such splendid flexibility and expressive range that he makes the pieces here seem like miniature masterpieces.

In a way, they are. All but one were originally part of an oboe collection by an early-19th-century German clarinettist-turned-oboist named Franz Wilhelm Ferling. French clarinettist Cyrille Rose adapted them for his own instrument, maintaining most of Ferling's writing but transforming each etude into a true clarinet work. The pieces explore a range of keys and techniques, testing the player's musicality and facility.

Rose, longtime principal clarinet of the Paris Opera, evidently knew his composers. There are dashes redolent of buoyant Weber and lyrical Mendelssohn, as well as quotes from solo violin works by Bach. The etudes are so varied and graceful that they make up a delightful array, without ever coming across as if they were intended merely for study purposes.

Osborn brings mellifluous beauty and agile ease to Rose's creations. He negotiates the florid passages as if born to musical acrobatics, while always keeping phrase shapes in mind. The clarinettist states in his programme note that the etudes, like much Baroque music, are sparse in markings. His choices of nuances and dynamics fill out the personality of the pieces to vivid effect. You certainly don't have to be a clarinet player to enjoy this disc.

Donald Rosenberg"