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Recorded in 1942. Luigi Amodio, clarinet, Siegfried Shultz, piano

1. Allegro apassianato 7:36
2. Andante un poco Adagio 10:33
3. Allegretto Grazioso 12:04
4. Vivace 16:03

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Luigi Amodio (1902-1942))
Luigi was born in Bologna on August 7, 1902. This young man achieved his diploma of the age of 17. Bianchini had taught Amodio at the Bologna Conservatory. The following five years were taken up with freelancing all over Italy and Switzerland.

Toscanini noticed Amodio and hired him to play principal clarinet in his orchestra at La Scala. He needed extra income in the summer. His favorite pastime was swimming, so he usually chose to work near a lake or sea in short opera and ballet seasons. La Scala Opera House, being one of the most famous and prestigious companies in the world, offered no security or pension scheme to any of their musicians at that time.

Eventually the opportunity to perform major concertos arose, one of the most notable occasions being a Weber Concerto with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.

He collaborated with many world-famous musicians, such as the Poltronieri and Strub Quartets, with whom he performed and recorded most of the mainstream compositions for clarinet and string quartet.. Amodio performed with Sergei Prokofiev in his piece ''Overture on Hebrew Themes'' in 1938 in Milan.

As war was imminent, Amodio sought the sanctuary of a professorship at a civic school in Milan. His most notable pupil was Gianni Schianni who become principal clarinet in the Milan Radio Orchestra. Giacomo Gandini and he introduced the Italian style of playing to clarinetists of that time.

One can imagine the incredible duress Amodio must have been under while making these recordings. He had been diagnosed as having long cancer, World War II was well under way, and he was having to leave his family to travel to Berlin. In less than one year he cut Mozart’s Quartet, Trio and Concerto, Beethoven's Trio and Sextet, Weber's Grand Duo Concertant, Schumann’s 3 Fantasie-Stucke, and Brahms' Quintet and 1st Sonata.

© Malcolm McMillon
Acknowledgments to Luciano and Giorgio Amodio, Luigi Magistrelli, Antoine de Bavier, and Pamela Weston’s book “Clarinet Virtuosi of Today”.