Mozart, Widmann: Clarinet Quintets
Jörg Widmann (clarinet), Hagen Quartett (string quartet)
Awards:
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Chamber Music
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...
Mozart, Widmann: Clarinet Quintets
Jörg Widmann (clarinet), Hagen Quartett (string quartet)
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Awards:
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Chamber Music
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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Hardly any combination of instruments is more appealing than a string quartet and a clarinet; together they make a magical melange. The Hagen Quartet and Jörg Widmann have recorded Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet, a “work among friends”, in this irresistible blend. Jörg Widmann, clarinettist and composer in equal measure, picks up on the omnipresent themes of “floating, love, and chant” in Mozart’s notes and creates a weighty counterpart to Mozart’s popular work with his own clarinet quintet, which is available here in a world premiere recording.
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Awards and reviews
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International Classical Music Awards2024Nominated - Chamber Music
July 2023
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 uneasy composition, given its premiere recording by supremely talented musicians.
July 2023
[The Widmann] compels on its own terms, and the authority of the performance cannot, of course, be doubted. As for the Mozart, this is a well-lived-in reading, the shaping by the quartet by now intuitive, the reactions between string ensemble and reed soloist instinctive
