Sonates pour clarinette et piano

Description

This album invites us on a journey through various eras of Romanticism, from its origins to its twilight, from Schubert to Poulenc, passing through Schumann and Berg. It is also the story of a long friendly and artistic complicity...
Enemy of all routine, the clarinetist Michel Portal takes care of his unpredictability like an astronaut with his oxygen. His almost organic curiosity, his need for exchanges, responds to a disturbing encounter with the pianist Michel Dalberto.
The clarinet sonatas of Brahms, Poulenc, the Phantasiestücke of Schumann, and the Four Pieces of Berg thus find a new setting at La Dolce Volta. Every record by Michel Portal is a passport to wisdom, a term that for him rhymes with speed, joy, and exultation. An eternal youth!