Brahms: Clarinet Quintet in Bm Op115

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Violists constantly complain about the scarcity of romantic works for their instrument. Yuri Bashmet added two by transforming Brahms's Clarinet Quintet and Shostakovich's 13th String Quartet into vehicles for solo viola and chamber orchestra. His justification is that Brahms did indeed suggest that a viola could replace the clarinet, and that Shostakovich's quartet features the viola and is dedicated to a violist. The Brahms transcription (Bashmet's own) is not successful: the texture is muddy; the work's intimacy, atmosphere, and character are lost. Moreover, the balance is poor and the playing shows little respect for Brahms's austere, mature, mellow style. The Shostakovich, in Tchaikovsky's arrangement, is much better. This music is in Bashmet's blood; taking over the solo passages not only of the viola part, but of all the others, he gives the death-haunted bleakness and wild agony of the piece an aching, numbing, emotional immediacy. The ending--a surging, high-pitched unison tone that abruptly breaks off at its peak--has been described as "a blinding white light and then--nothing," but the effect is undercut by the arrangement, which adds a low note at the last moment. --Edith Eisler

Yuri Bashmet (Viola) : Brahms;Shostakovich, Music, Johannes Brahms, Dmitry Shostakovich, Moscow Soloists, Yuri Bashmet, Chamber, Classical, Classical Artists, Classical Music, Miscellaneous, Miscellaneous Music, Music for String Quartet with Other Instrument(s)

Average customer rating: Incredible clarinetist!

Mozart: Quintet in A; Brahms: Clarinet Quintet in Bm Op115 Manufacturer: Harmonia Mundi Fr. ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Quintets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Brahms | Brahms, Johannes | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Classical | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Carl Maria von Weber: Concertos for Clarinet and Orchestra Nos. 1-2; etc. French Portraits ASIN: B00000I9KB Release Date: 1999-03-09

Tracks:

1. Qnt in A, K.581: Allegro
2. Qnt in A, K.581: Larghetto
3. Qnt in A, K.581: Menuetto
4. Qnt in A, K.581: Allegretto Con Var
5. Qnt in b, Op.115: Allegro
6. Qnt in b, Op.115: Adagio
7. Qnt in b, Op.115: Andantino-Presto Non Assai, Ma Con Sentimento
8. Qnt in b, Op.115: Con Moto

Customer Reviews:

Incredible clarinetist!.......2004-04-02

Having studied Clarinet in France(eons ago) I can honestly say the Mozart is given here an interpretation that balances the light with the darker elements rather well. Tonal colours and shadings evoke a sound pallette that can only come from such a refined French Clarinetist...the only drawback is sometimes intonation is a bit high at the end of some phrases....but the depth and colouration of phrasing is truly admirable.

If you want to hear an incredible Clarinetist on top form...with a solid concept of these works...Carbonare has these pieces in his pocket!!!

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Mozart: Quintet in A; Brahms: Clarinet Quintet in Bm Op115 Manufacturer: Crd ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Quintets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Brahms | Brahms, Johannes | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B00000IMTS Release Date: 1994-04-05

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Brahms: Clarinet Quintet in Bm Op115; Reger: Quintet Op146 Manufacturer: Koch Schwann (Germ.) ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Quintets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Brahms | Brahms, Johannes | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Reger, Max | ( R ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Reger, Max | Composers | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B000001SR6 Release Date: 1996-06-18

Tracks:

1. Qnt in b, Op. 115 for cl, 2 vns, va and vc: I. Allegro
2. Qnt in b, Op. 115 for cl, 2 vns, va and vc: II. Adagio
3. Qnt in b, Op. 115 for cl, 2 vns, va and vc: III. Andantino-Presto non assai, ma con sentimento
4. Qnt in b, Op. 115 for cl, 2 vns, va and vc: IV. Con moto
5. Qnt in A, Op. 146 for cl, 2 vns, va and vc: I. Moderato ed amabile
6. Qnt in A, Op. 146 for cl, 2 vns, va and vc: II. Vivace
7. Qnt in A, Op. 146 for cl, 2 vns, va and vc: III. Largo
8. Qnt in A, Op. 146 for cl, 2 vns, va and vc: IV. Poco allegretto

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