Whygold’s Weekend


Whygold’s Weekend

Sabine Meyer / Oleg Maisenberg – French Recital

… under this motto I present you my music tip for the weekend.

Maybe one or the other discovers something new.

Consciously listening to music is, in my opinion, as important as reading a good book.

Today: Sabine Meyer / Oleg Maisenberg – French Recital

https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lMGhBkKo-O4URjtxa_mzK6gk6B5dbVcXM

Sabine Meyer (born March 30, 1959 in Crailsheim) is a German clarinetist who performs internationally as a soloist and is considered one of the most renowned instrumental soloists anywhere in the world.[1][2][3] From 1993 to October 2022, she was a professor of clarinet and chamber music at the Lübeck Academy of Music.

Sabine Meyer began her training as a clarinettist at the age of 14 at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart with Otto Hermann. After a short time, she moved to the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media, where she was taught by Hans Deinzer.

After completing her studies, she was initially a clarinetist in the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. On September 1, 1982, the artistic director of the Berliner Philharmoniker hired Sabine Meyer as 2nd solo clarinetist (alongside Karl Leister) for a one-year probationary period at the instigation of chief conductor Herbert von Karajan – as the second woman after violinist Madeleine Carruzzo.[4] However, the members of the orchestra subsequently voted overwhelmingly against her hiring. Serious differences then arose between Karajan and the orchestra, causing Sabine Meyer to leave the position after nine months and abandon her career as an orchestral musician in favor of working as a soloist, especially since she was already increasingly in demand as such.[5][6][7]

Sabine Meyer has performed as a soloist with more than 300 orchestras throughout the world during her career, including many top international orchestras. Radio and television appearances have also taken her to all continents. She has also been active in chamber music with artists such as Heinrich Schiff, Gidon Kremer, Oleg Maisenberg, Leif Ove Andsnes, Fazil Say, Martin Helmchen, Juliane Banse, the Hagen Quartet, the Tokyo String Quartet and the Modigliani Quartet. In 1994, she collaborated with jazz clarinetist Eddie Daniels and arranger/composer Torrie Zito (“Blues for Sabine”).

In 1983, together with her husband and her brother Wolfgang Meyer, who died in March 2019, she founded the Trio di Clarone with the instrumentation clarinet, basset horn and bass clarinet, whereby clarinet and basset horn were played by all, bass clarinet only by Reiner Wehle. For example, works for three basset horns could also be performed.

Sabine Meyer’s repertoire includes pre-classical, classical and romantic works as well as contemporary music. Works by composers Jean Françaix, Edison Denissov, Harald Genzmer, Toshio Hosokawa, Niccolo Castiglioni, Manfred Trojahn, Aribert Reimann, Peter Eötvös and Oscar Bianchi were dedicated to her.

With her husband Reiner Wehle, Sabine Meyer initially shared a clarinet professorship at the University of Music Lübeck from 1993 until the summer semester of 2020. It later became 1½ positions, of which Wehle was given a full-time position. Following his retirement on March 31, 2020, Jens Thoben, a former student of Wehle, became the new full-time professor of clarinet in Lübeck,[14] while Sabine Meyer continued in her half-professor position until October 2022. Jens Thoben has since been the sole professor of clarinet in Lübeck (along with the adjunct professor Ákos Hoffman).

Some of her students have also made a name for themselves as soloists, including Israeli clarinetist Shirley Brill, Belgian clarinetist Annelien Van Wauwe, German clarinetist Sebastian Manz, Japanese clarinetist Taira Kaneko, and South Korean Han Kim.

(Source: Wikipedia)

A beautiful shot, where I think you can “switch off” well. 🙂

Have fun listening to this album !

Your Chris Weigold

P.S.: Maybe you enjoy the listening pleasure together with a glass of wine from our “Orchestra of Cultures Edition”.