Mozart: Complete Works for Clarinet on Period Instruments, Vol. 1 Nicolas Baldeyrou

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791): Serenade in E-Flat Major No. 11, K. 375:
• 1 Mozart: Serenade in E-Flat Major No. 11, K. 375: I. Allegro maestoso 07:11
• 2 Mozart: Serenade in E-Flat Major No. 11, K. 375: II. Menuetto 03:49
• 3 Mozart: Serenade in E-Flat Major No. 11, K. 375: III. Adagio 05:16
• 4 Mozart: Serenade in E-Flat Major No. 11, K. 375: IV. Menuetto 02:43
• 5 Mozart: Serenade in E-Flat Major No. 11, K. 375: V. Allegro 03:27
• Serenade in C Minor No. 12, K. 388:
• 6 Mozart: Serenade in C Minor No. 12, K. 388: I. Allegro 08:03
• 7 Mozart: Serenade in C Minor No. 12, K. 388: II. Andante 03:49
• 8 Mozart: Serenade in C Minor No. 12, K. 388: III. Menuetto in canone. Trio in canone in rovescio 03:47
• 9 Mozart: Serenade in C Minor No. 12, K. 388: IV. Allegro 06:01
• Serenade in B-Flat Major No. 10, K. 361 "Gran Partita":
• 10 Mozart: Serenade in B-Flat Major No. 10, K. 361 "Gran Partita": I. Largo. Molto allegro 08:49
• 11 Mozart: Serenade in B-Flat Major No. 10, K. 361 "Gran Partita": II. Menuetto. Trios I & II 08:39
• 12 Mozart: Serenade in B-Flat Major No. 10, K. 361 "Gran Partita": III. Adagio 04:53
• 13 Mozart: Serenade in B-Flat Major No. 10, K. 361 "Gran Partita": IV. Menuetto. Allegretto - Trios I & II 04:48
• 14 Mozart: Serenade in B-Flat Major No. 10, K. 361 "Gran Partita": V. Romanze. Allegretto 06:51
• 15 Mozart: Serenade in B-Flat Major No. 10, K. 361 "Gran Partita": VI. Tema con variazioni 09:30
• 16 Mozart: Serenade in B-Flat Major No. 10, K. 361 "Gran Partita": VII. Finale 03:30
• Total Runtime 01:31:06

Info for Mozart: Complete Works for Clarinet on Period Instruments, Vol. 1

"Mozart always had a special affinity with wind instruments: for him they were essential components of his musical expression," claims French clarinettist Nicolas Baldeyrou, a globally renowned soloist who has performed with some of the greatest conductors and virtuosi: this album is the first volume of a complete set of Mozart's chamber and concertante music involving the clarinet, which he has chosen to record on period instruments, "an authentic and revelatory experience, despite the technical challenges it presents". He has enlisted the help of his musical friends, all of whom are recognised as adept practitioners of modern instruments, but sustain a strong passion for period instruments... The programme of this first release includes the Serenades KV 375 and 388 as well as Mozart's Gran Partita KV 361, a work on an exceptionally grand scale, with its line-up of thirteen players, its expansive duration, and its supreme musical quality, "rising to the level of Mozart's greatest symphonies and operas".

Nicolas Baldeyrou, clarinet
Helene Devilleneuve, oboe
Gabriel Pidoux, oboe
Franck Amet, clarinet
Alexandre Chabod, clarinet, basset horn
Francois Miquel, basset horn
David Doucot, bassoon
Thomas Quinquenel, bassoon
Anne Boussard, horn
Antoine Dreyfuss, horn
David Guerrier, horn
Hugues Viallon, horn
Yann Dubost, double bass

Nicolas Baldeyrou
is one of the most prominent clarinettists of his generation, invited to perform as soloist with such prestigious orchestras as the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Czech Philharmonic, the Tokyo, Prague and Saint-Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestras, the Sofia Symphony Orchestra, the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre National d'Île-de-France, the Orchestre d'Auvergne and the Orchestre de Cannes-Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur. He is regularly invited to recitals at Carnegie Hall, New York, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Cité de la Musique à Paris, the Cologne Philharmonic, the Salzburg Mozarteum, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels, the Bunkamura Orchard Hall in Tokyo, the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory , as well as performing in China, Singapore, Hong Kong and Mexico.

Successively clarinet soloist with the European Union Youth Orchestra where he worked with Bernard Haitink, Carlo Maria Giulini and Sir Colin Davis from the Mahler Chamber Orchestra to Claudio Abbado and the Orchestre National de France conducted by Kurt Masur, he has since led a triple career as soloist, teacher and orchestra musician at the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra headed by Myung-Whun Chung, where he was appointed first clarinet in 2011. Since 2006 he has taught at the Lyon Conservatoire National Supérieur Musique et Danse.

He remains active in chamber music, performing regularly with artists such as Bertrand Chamayou, Svetlin Roussev, Antoine Tamestit, Marc Coppey, François Salque, Henri Demarquette, Alexis Descharmes, Nora Cismondi, Alexeï Ogrintchouk, David Walter, David Guerrier, Julien Hardy, the Moraguès Quintette, the Ébène, Modigliani, Psophos, Ysaÿe, Aviv, Carmina, Minguet, Talich, and Vogler quartets.

Nicolas Baldeyrou is actively involved in contemporary music; the music of his time. In 2003, Éric Tanguy dedicated a solo clarinet piece to him, Capriccio, as did Jacques Lenot with the piece Tormentoso. He has also worked with several contemporary music ensembles such as 2E2M, Court-Circuit, TM+, Alternance, Ars Nova, and Sillage.

His passion for exploring new repertoires and his commitment to authenticity in his performances led him naturally towards an interest in period instruments. He is regularly invited to perform by Marc Minkowski (Les Musiciens du Louvre), by Emmanuelle Haïm (Le Concert d'Astrée ensemble) and Emmanuel Krivine (La Chambre Philharmonique).

Nicolas Baldeyrou began learning clarinet at the age of eight years old. He studied, successively, at the Conservatoire Municipal du Kremlin-Bicêtre (under Pierre Billaud), the Conservatoire de Saint-Maur-des-Fossés (under Véronique Fèvre), and at the age of 14, the Paris Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse (under Michel Arrignon and Jérôme Julien-Laferrière). After unanimous vote, he was awarded the Léon Leblanc special prize for bass clarinet (under Jean-Noël Crocq) before beginning his final postgraduate studies.

After graduating, he won three high-level awards: the prestigious ARD International Music Competition (Munich) in 1998, the Dos Hermanas International Clarinet Competition (Spain) in 1999 and the ICA Young Artist Competition (USA) in 2001. He was also laureate of the international prizes Carl Nielsen (Odense) and the Jeunesses Musicales (Bucarest), the Révélations de l'Adami, the Natixis Foundation, the Bunkamura Orchard Hall Award, and the extremely prestigious "Rising Star" programme, in 2004.

Since 2004, he has also been tester for the woodwind instrument manufacturer Buffet-Crampon, and thus contributes to the development of the clarinet and to the influence of the école française throughout the world.

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