Description

Liquid describes the mellifluous sound of François Houle’s clarinet; the mercurial overlapping timbres in Scelsi’s Kya, the rippling cadenza circles in Houle’s Clarinet concerto; the leaping, spiky lines of clarinet that fly over and through the ruptured surfaces of Yannick Plamondon’s Schrift; and Liquid is also the title of a piece by John Korsrud. In the four substantial works recorded here, the multi-dimensional and unique world of the solo clarinet merges and collides with that of a large chamber ensemble in ways that are unpredictable and alchemical.