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Brahms: Clarinet Quintet RecommendedMartin Fröst (clarinet), with Janine Jansen (violin), Boris Brovtsyn (violin), Maxim Rysanov (viola), Torleif Thedéen (cello), with Roland Pöntinen (piano), with Torleif Thedéen (cello) & Roland Pöntinen (piano)
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Fröst revels in the deep-plush velvet of his chalumeau regions - and, indeed, sustains this timbre throughout the instrument's register...the ensemble creates cutting-edge rhythmic urgency,... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2014, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Gramophone Awards, 2015, Finalist - Chamber
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The Nash players do these deeply attractive and enjoyable works proud… in affectionate performances that revel in Coleridge-Taylor's idiomatic and challenging writing. — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2008, Chamber Finalist
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2007, Editor's Choice
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Building a Library, June 2017, Also Recommended
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Ferguson, Bliss & Holloway: Octets & Clarinet Quintet Isabelle van Keulen, Sini Simonen, Scott Dickinson, Kristina Blaumane, Tim Gibbs, Michael Collins, Robin O’Neill, Alberto Menéndez Escribano, Rachel Roberts, Tim Gill, Diego Incertis Sánchez
Wigmore Soloists
With violinist Isabelle van Keulen and clarinettist Michael Collins spearheading the players, it ’s unsurprising that the performance [of the Ferguson Octet] as a whole is something of a revelation. — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2024, Chamber 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... — More…
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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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Fröst Plays Weber Clarinet Concertos
Martin Fröst (clarinet)
Tapiola Sinfonietta, Jean-Jacques Kantorow
The Swedish clarinettist Martin Fröst plays with admirable virtuosity and smoothness of tone, and it’s hard to imagine the music better performed. — More…
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Weber: Complete Works for Clarinet Sebastian Manz (clarinet), Martin Klett (piano), Lars Olaf Schaper (double bass)
Casal Quartet, SWR Orchestra, Antonio Mendez
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ECHO Klassik Awards, 2017, Winner
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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,... — More…
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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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Brahms: Double Concerto & Clarinet Quintet
RecommendedRenaud Capuçon (violin) & Gautier Capuçon (cello), Paul Meyer (clarinet), Renaud Capuçon (violin), Aki Saulière (violin), Gautier Capuçon (cello) & Béatrice Muthelet (viola)
Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, Myung-Whun Chung
The stellar young Capuçon brothers seem incapable of setting a foot wrong on disc and they put their considerable chamber-music experience to great use in Brahms's final orchestral work, with... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2008, Editor's Choice
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Building a Library, October 2022, Recommended Recording
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Brahms: The Hungarian Connection
RecommendedAndreas Ottensamer (clarinet), Leonidas Kavakos (violin), Antoine Tamestit (viola), Christoph and Stephan Koncz (violin, cello), Ödon Rácz (double bass), Predrag Tomic (accordion) & Oskar Ökrös (cimbalom)
The performance of the Quintet is a fine one, with lovely clarinet tone, excellent overall sound and a deep understanding of the work's varied character…a fascinating issue, with playing of... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 16th March 2015
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2015
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