Close to Home - music for clarinet & piano: Bernstein: Sonata; Copland: Sonata; Coleman: Sonatine; Reich, Mandat / Michael Rowlett, clarinet; Stacy Rodgers, piano

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Album Summary

Performers

• Stacy Rodgers (Piano)
• Michael Rowlett (Clarinet)

Composers

• Eric Mandat
• Steve Reich (1936 - )
• Leonard Bernstein (1918 - 1990)
• Valerie Coleman (1970 - )
• Jeanne Singer (1924 - )
• Aaron Copland (1900 - 1990)

Notes & Reviews:

The program for Close to Home began when clarinetist Michael Rowlett met two composers whose music intrigued him - Valerie Coleman and Eric Mandat. He gathered works by other American composers, finding similarities among the diverse pieces with inspiration for the compositions coming from a particular place, a moment or a memory. Michael Rowlett is on the faculty at the University of Mississippi and was a semi-finalist in the ICA's 1998 Young Artist competition. He has appeared as a concerto soloist with orchestras in Tennessee, North Carolina, Louisiana and Mississippi and at the conventions of the International Clarinet Association. He studied at Florida State University where he received his D.M, the University of Iowa and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His collaborator on this recording, pianist Stacy Rodgers is on the faculty at the University of Mississippi.

Notes & Reviews:

Recording information: First Presbyterian Church, Oxford, Mississippi.

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Works Details

Bernstein, Leonard : Sonata for Clarinet and Piano

• Performers: Stacy Rodgers (Piano); Michael Rowlett (Clarinet)
• Running Time: 10 min. 50 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1941-1942

Singer, Jeanne : Nocturne for clarinet & piano

• Performers: Stacy Rodgers (Piano); Michael Rowlett (Clarinet)
• Running Time: 6 min. 15 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1975

Mandat, Eric : Rrowzer!, for clarinet & piano

• Performers: Stacy Rodgers (Piano); Michael Rowlett (Clarinet)
• Running Time: 8 min. 35 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary

Coleman, Valerie : Sonatine for clarinet & piano

• Performers: Stacy Rodgers (Piano); Michael Rowlett (Clarinet)
• Running Time: 8 min. 7 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary

Copland, Aaron : Sonata for clarinet & piano (arr. of Sonata for Violin & Piano)

• Performers: Stacy Rodgers (Piano); Michael Rowlett (Clarinet)
• Running Time: 19 min. 1 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1942-1943

Reich, Steve : New York Counterpoint

• Performers: Michael Rowlett (Clarinet); Stacy Rodgers (Piano)
• Running Time: 11 min. 6 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Written: 1985