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Han Chen - Polyglot (2024)

Han Chen - Polyglot (2024)
  • Title: Polyglot
  • Year Of Release: 2024
  • Label: Navona
  • Genre: Classical
  • Quality: FLAC (tracks)
  • Total Time: 67:11 min
  • Total Size: 233 MB
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Tracklist:

01. Sonata Santera: I. Despojo
02. Sonata Santera: II. Ofrenda
03. Sonata Santera: III. Bembe
04. Críptico No. 9
05. Danzón
06. Summer Night in a Deep Valley
07. Escenas
08. Clarinet Trio in A Minor, Op. 114: I. Allegro
09. Clarinet Trio in A Minor, Op. 114: II. Adagio
10. Clarinet Trio in A Minor, Op. 114: III. Andantino grazioso
11. Clarinet Trio in A Minor, Op. 114: IV. Allegro

Eric Schultz’s masterful clarinet playing speaks in new and known tongues on POLYGLOT, a concept album celebrating music as a language of cultural identity and the self. A strong advocate of living composers, Schultz opens with an engrossing performance of Iván Enrique Rodríguez’s Sonata Santera, exploring the development and evolution of three Caribbean Santeria rituals. Schultz captures the enchanting, mystical nature of the rituals between the rhythmic, driving movements, occasionally accompanied by percussive elements.

Schultz follows with Críptico no. 9: DAVЯTHAN, an interpretive piece that centralizes language and text-setting at the core of its composition. Shortly followed is Johnny Navarro’s romantic Danzón, a nostalgic work punctuated by fleeting moments of sensuality. The same intimacy is carried into Chiayu Hsu’s Summer Night in a Deep Valley, showcasing meditative episodes on the natural beauty expressed in Guo Xi’s Chinese landscape paintings. Likewise, Gabriel Bouche Caro’s Escenas explores a meditation on self-identity and its existence as a product of culture, the clarinet never languishing in melancholic passages, but always remaining reflective and curious.

POLYGLOT culminates with the Brahms Trio, Op. 114, a composition inspired by the clarinet playing of friend Richard Mühlfeld, an inspiration so strong it served to pull the composer from retirement. To Schultz, a quarterfinalist for the 2025 GRAMMY® Music Educator of the Year, music is a hallmark of metamorphosis that drives cultural change across history, the performer and composer working in tandem to create something inspired and new — speaking each other’s language, you might say.


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