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Brahms / Mozart / Glazunov / Sweeney - Chamber Music | Linn CKD278

Brahms / Mozart / Glazunov / Sweeney - Chamber Music

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Label: Linn

Cat No: CKD278

Barcode: 0691062027823

Format: Hybrid SACD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 5th February 2007

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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 Sweeny.

At the centrepiece of this new recording is the Brahms Clarinet Quintet in B minor, which in their hands carries particular historical significance. Brahms was originally inspired to write the Quintet after hearing clarinettist Richard Mühlfeld perform. Interestingly Lesley Schatzberger can trace her teacher-pupil relationships back to Mühlfeld and in fact performs on a specially-made copy made of Mühlfeld’s own clarinet. This wonderful instrument creates an authentic period sound, one to which the Quartet adds by making use of contemporary style bows and gut strings.
 
The programme also includes a rare Mozart Quintet Movement in B flat major, completed by Duncan Druce, which is one of several unfinished Mozart works which are still being realised today, as well as Glazunov’s haunting Rêverie Orientale and An Òg-Mhadainn (The Young Morning) by Scottish contemporary composer William Sweeney which evokes the bright, clear early mornings common to the beginning of the new year.
 
Founded in 1968 by four Cambridge undergraduates, the Fitzwilliam String Quartet first became well known through their close personal association with Dmitri Shostakovich, who entrusted them with the Western premières of his last three quartets.
 
". . . a bright, immediate, forward-moving account of the Brahms that resists wallowing indulgence. There is a charming, poised and fascinating performance of the Mozart Quintet movement (completed by Duncan Druce), a ravishing version of the Borodin-flavoured Reverie Orientale by Glazunov, and a hypnotic and beautifully atmospheric performance of Bill Sweeney’s An Òg-Mhadainn (The Young Morning) with its apparent duets staged over the upper and lower registers of the basset clarinet. Schatzberger’s playing is so creamy you will melt away." The Herald (Glasgow) - Saturday 17 February 2007 - Michael Tumelty

"The result is a triumph: the most revelatory version of the piece [Brahms] I’ve heard in years; animated, dynamic, passionate, with the greater agility and more focused tone of the Ottensteiner clarinet ideally matched to this approach." "I have no hesitation in naming this the new benchmark, as Kell/Busch (on EMI) remains the historic ones." BBC Music Magazine - Callum MacDonald - Performance 5/5 Sound 5/5

"The historically informed thinking behind this recording of the Brahms has resulted in a vibrant and emotionally involving account of the work that is enormously welcome from a purely musical point of view as well – these players are utterly at home with the style, and the result is one of the most rewarding discs of this much-played work to have appeared in recent years, with a range of colours that is ear-opening and often ravishing – from strings as well as clarinet." International Record Review, February 2007 - Nigel Simeone

 

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