Dreams of Clarinet Music
copperhk | Hongkong | 11/28/1999
(5 out of 5 stars)
"You can't imagine how I was impressed when I first heard Cinema Paradiso (an arrangement with both main theme and love theme of the wonderful film with the same title) played by Richard Stoltzman with his clarinet. The beautiful tone color, the dreaming atmosphere, the warmth and the heaven of music......all are unforgettable. (I can say that this arrangement is in the tempo that satisfy me more than the original one in movie soundtracks, even though you may say that his playing is not "official".)Other titles are also attractive. Both rearrangements of music classics (e.g. Tears in Heaven ,The Snowman and Bach/Brahm's pieces etc.) and original music pieces(e.g. Open Sky and Blackbirds etc.) let me explore in the space of clarinet music and have different kinds of dreams.P.S. One of my friends who is/was a music lover didn't like to hear clarinet until he heard the music on this CD. Now he also recommands and/or sends this CD to some other music lovers."