Brahms: Clarinet Quintet & works by Mozart, Glazunov & Sweeney

Clarinettist Lesley Schatzberger and the Fitzwilliam String Quartet, both of whom have established well-deserved reputations for thoughtfully delivered and historically considered performances, present a new recording of works by Brahms, Mozart, Glazunov and Sweeney.

CKD278  61 minutes 44 seconds
''Is yet another disc of the Brahms Clarinet Quintet really needed?' asks Alan George in his excellent note to this one. His answer is that a new approach is here made. Part of it is through use of a ...
BBC Music Magazine
'The opening bars of this new recording of the Brahms Clarinet Quintet are a revelation … for a modern version using a copy of the clarinet Brahms had in mind when he wrote the work, and string p ...