01	Die Interimsliebenden						07:40
	02	Zebulon						03:42
	03	Blume						04:33
	04	12305(Te Nacht)						04:12
	05	Sie						06:08
	06	Wüste						04:06
	07	Headcleaner: I. Zentrifuge / Stabs / Rotlichtachse Propaganda / Aufmarsch; II. Einhorn; III. Marschlied /						09:55
	08	Headcleaner: III. .../ Das Gleissen / Schlacht; IV. Lyrischer R|Ckzug						05:12

"Homage to Benny Goodman" 1909-1986

Malcolm Arnold b.1921
Concerto No.2 for Clarinet and Orchestra, op.115 ** t
1 Allegro vivace
2 Lento
3 Allegro non troppo (The Pre-Goodman Rag)

Aaron Copland 1900-1990
Concerto for Clarinet and String Orchestra with Harp and Piano *# t
4 Slowly and expressively - Cadenza \endash
5 Ratherfast

Igor Stravinsky 1882-1971
Ebony Concerto for Clarinet and Jazz-Orchestra* tt
6 Allegro moderato
7 Andante
8 Moderato - Con moto

Leonard Bernstein 1918-1990
Prelude, Fugue and Riffs ** tt
9 Prelude for the Brass -
10 Fugue for the Saxes -
11 Riffs for Everyone

Big Band Arrangements arr. Chris Walden (12-17); Ingo Luis (18)

Niccolo Paganini 1782-1840
12 Paganini Caprice 24 * tt

Mel Powell b.1923
13 Clarinade ** tt

Louis Prima 1911-1978
14 Sing, Sing, Sing */** tt

Benny Goodman 1909-1986
15 Rachel's Dream */** tt

Eddie Sauter 1914-1981
16 Clarinet a la King ** tt

Original Dixieland Jazz Band
17 Tiger Rag*/** tt

Gordon Jenkins 1910-1984
18 Good-bye */** tt

*Sabine Meyer clarinet / Klarinette / clarinette
**Wolfgang Meyer clarinet / Klarinette / clarinette
#Rosmarie Schmid-Münster harp/Harfe/harpe;
Andreas Weimer piano/Klavier
t Bamberger Symphoniker
tt Bamberg Symphony - big band

Till Weser Big Band preparation / Big Band-Einstudierung (Big Band material supplied by / Aufführungsmaterial für die Big Band von Wolfgang Meyer)

conducted by / Dirigent Ingo Metzmacher

Recorded in co-production with / Aufgenommen in Zusammenarbeit mit Bayerischer Rundfunk, Bamberger Symphoniker, Bamberg Symphony - big band
Recorded / Aufgenommen: XII.1997, Joseph-Keilberth-Saal, Bamberg
Executive Producer / Aufnahmeleiter: John Fraser
Producer & Editor / Produzent & Schnitt: Wolfgang Schreiner
Balance Engineer / Tonmeister: Herbert Frühbauer
Front cover / Titelseite: Photo - Sheila Rock. Design - Red Engine
(P) 1998 EMI Records Ltd. http://www.emiclassics.com

Homage to Benny Goodman
Benny Goodman was a great musician and an unusual one for his time. It is apt that over a decade after his death in 1986 he should still be receiving tributes, especially from other ciarinettists. He was that rarity in jazz, a virtual infant prodigy, played his first engagements while in short trousers and joined the musicians' union at 13. The most important single element in his early training was undoubtedly his two years of study with Franz Schoepp, a strict, Germanic disciplinarian who besides imparting the basis of Goodman's magnificent technique introduced him to older black jazz players such as Jimmy Noone and Buster Bailey who were also studying with him.
Goodman gradually found his way into local Chicago bands and beyond that to work in broadcasting, which gradually assumed greater importance as the 1920s wore on. Having played duets with Noone and Bailey under Schoepp's supervision Goodman was also affected by the cornettist Bix Beiderbecke, as is clear from Goodman's on-the-beat attack, careful choice of notes and across-the-barline phrasing in his improvisations on even his earliest recordings.

In due course he became a bandleader and from 1935 an extremely successful one whose international fame lasted for the rest of his life and beyond. What he played was jazz for big bands, which became known as 'swing'; in fact his pre-eminence with the public was such that he was dubbed the 'King of Swing' although very many other large bands were in the 1930s and '40s offering the same kind of music, each in their individual style.

While Goodman's career had a number of peaks, one was undoubtedly the concert his band gave in January 1938 at Carnegie Hall in New York, then an unusual venue for jazz. Yet although his bandleading activities were then at their most intensive, in April of that year he found the time, energy and concentration to record Mozart's Cl