Complete Works for Clarinet & Piano
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Max Reger's works for clarinet are given superlative performances by David Odom.

Clarinetist David Odom has a thriving career as a soloist, chamber artist, orchestral musician, and educator. He has performed on four continents including in Brazil at the Festival Internacional de Música de Campina Grande and the ICA ClarinetFest in Spain. His performances have been featured on radio and television. He is principal clarinet of the Atlanta Opera Orchestra and the Columbus Symphony Orchestra and is on the faculty at Auburn University. His collaborator, pianist Jeremy Samolesky, is also on the faculty at Auburn and has performed throughout North America, South America, Europe, and Asia. Odom notes that Max Reger was inspired to write for clarinet after hearing a performance in early 1900 of Brahms' F Minor Sonata given by clarinetist Johann Kürmeyer and his former teacher Adalbert Lindner. He promptly composed the two sonatas in the spring of that year and gave a private performance of both with Kürmeyer. The recording concludes with two short works and these, along with the sonatas, comprise Reger's complete oeuvre for clarinet and piano.
Contents:
Max Reger, composer
Sonata in B-flat major, op. 107
David Odom, clarinet; Jeremy Samolesky, piano

Max Reger, composer
Sonata in A-flat major, op. 49 no. 1
David Odom, clarinet; Jeremy Samolesky, piano

Max Reger, composer
Sonata in F-sharp minor, op. 49 no. 2
David Odom, clarinet; Jeremy Samolesky, piano

Max Reger, composer
Albumblatt WoO II/13
David Odom, clarinet; Jeremy Samolesky, piano

Max Reger, composer
Tarantella WoO II/12
David Odom, clarinet; Jeremy Samolesky, piano
Review:
"Max Reger's music is endelssly fascinating to me…he writes with a clear awareness of the tremendous upheavals on the horizon for art music…Lyrical and poignant melodies meander with bittersweet hesitancy along harmonically sinuous paths, sometimes stopping for a moment ot ponder or cry or shake their fists at the heavens. Clarinetist David Odom and pianist Jeremy Samolesky play this music as if it were written in their souls. Strongly recommended to all collections." (Rick's Pick)