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Gumboots / Clarinet Quintet
Johannes Brahms - David Bruce

Gumboots / Clarinet Quintet

Julian Bliss

Label: Signum Classics
Format: CD
Barcode: 0635212044827
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Catalog number: SIGCD 448
Releasedate: 10-06-16
- Julian Bliss, clarinet, and the Carducci Quartet pair two highly contrasting works – Johannes Brahms’s Clarinet Quintet and David Bruce’s Gumboots

- premiere recording of David Bruce's Gumboots
 
 
The two works on this release are highly contrasting- Johannes Brahms’s Clarinet Quintet and David Bruce’s Gumboots. David Bruce describes his inspiration for Gumboots: “…it was born out of the brutal labour conditions in South Africa under Apartheid, in which black miners were chained together and wore Gumboots while they worked in the flooded gold mines…slapping the boots and chains was used by the workers as a form of communication which was otherwise banned…this later developed into a form of dance.” Clarinetist Julian Bliss performs here alongside the Carducci Quartet.