Chamber, Quintets, Clarinet Quintets, Mozart (composer)
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Mozart: Clarinet Concerto & Clarinet Quintet
RecommendedThea King (basset clarinet)
English Chamber Orchestra, Gabreili String Quartet, Jeffrey Tate
The two works on this disc represent Mozart's clarinet writing at its most inspired; however, the instrument for which they were written differed in several respects from the modern clarinet,... —
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Building a Library, September 2006, First Choice
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Building a Library, March 2019, Also Recommended
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The clarinet ’s cool, refined tones blend with warm, pliable strings to irresistible effect in Mozart ’s joyful Quintet, K581 and Widmann’s substantial, singlemovement response – a complex and... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Chamber Music
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Special offer. Kaleidoscope - Beethoven Transcriptions
Saint-Saëns, Balakirev, Mussorgsky, Beethoven
Mari Kodama (piano)
he Saint-Saens Allegretto (from Op. 59 No. 1) comes over with a light and velvet touch and not a trace of mannerism…Most successful are Musorgsky’s deft arrangements of movements from the F... —
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2020, Instrumental Choice
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Special offer. Mozart: Complete Quintets Vol. 2
RecommendedArthur Grumiaux (violin), Arpad Gérecz, Georges Janzer (viola), Max Lesueur (viola), Eva Czako (cello), Quartetto Italiano, Bruno Hoffman (glass harmonica), Aurèle Nicolet, Heinz Holliger (oboe), Karl Schouten (viola), Jean Decroos (cello), Jack Brymer (clarinet), Allegri Quartet
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Building a Library, February 2005, First Choice
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Bliss sounds well to the fore in the Weber…Riding the Carducci Quartet’s neatly articulated or sensitively sustained accompaniments, Bliss tackles the score with a piercingly pure, vibrato-less... —
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Record Review, 3rd November 2018, Disc of the Week
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Building a Library, March 2019, Also Recommended
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Special offer. Mozart & Jacob: Quintets For Clarinet & Strings
Richard Hosford (clarinet), The Gaudier Ensemble
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Guyot takes every Mozartian opportunity for wit and playfulness, gleefully dialoguing with himself in the finales...Papageno is already a cheeky presence. —
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Building a Library, March 2019, Recommended Recording
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Special offer. Mozart: Clarinet Concerto and Clarinet Quintet
RecommendedJack Brymer (clarinet)
London Symphony Orchestra, Allegri Quartet, Sir Colin Davis
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Building a Library, March 2017, Also Recommended
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Elena Bashkirova…renders Mozart on a modern keyboard with smart tempos and restrained vehemence, which serves the material very well. The embellishments in the repeats of the sonata movements... —
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Solo Instrumental
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Building a Library, October 2001, Modern Instruments Choice
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