Salomon String Quartet

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This is a fascinating item for Mozart specialists. Scholars now suspect that Mozart wrote both his great Clarinet Quintet and the Clarinet Concertos for a lower- pitched version called the basset clarinet, and that is what Alan Hacker plays here, in a very mellow, slowly paced version of the work. The disc is filled out with completions of two fragmentary late Mozart works by one Duncan Druce. They aren't 100% Mozart, but they are interesting. For a more conventional version of the Clarinet Quintet on period instruments, coupled with other genuine Mozart, try Music from Aston Magna (Harmonia Mundi HMU 907059). --Leslie Gerber

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Clarinet Quintets Played on Original Instruments (Clarinet Quintet in A, K581 / Clarinet Quintet fragment in Bb, K516c / Quintet fragment in F for Clarinet, Basset Horn & String Trio, K580b) - Alan Hacker / Lesley Schatzberger / Salomon String Quartet, Music, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Composer), Alan Hacker (Clarinet), Lesley Schatzberger (Basset Horn), Salomon String Quartet, Chamber Music & Recitals, Classical, Classical Composers, Classical Music

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Clarinet Quintets Played on Original Instruments (Clarinet Quintet in A, K581 / Clarinet Quintet fragment in Bb, K516c / Quintet fragment in F for Clarinet, Basset Horn & String Trio, K580b) - Alan Hacker / Lesley Schatzberger / Salomon String Quartet
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From the review in Gramophone

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Clarinet Quintets Played on Original Instruments (Clarinet Quintet in A, K581 / Clarinet Quintet fragment in Bb, K516c / Quintet fragment in F for Clarinet, Basset Horn & String Trio, K580b) - Alan Hacker / Lesley Schatzberger / Salomon String Quartet
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Composer) , Alan Hacker (Clarinet) , Lesley Schatzberger (Basset Horn) , and Salomon String Quartet
Manufacturer: Amon Ra
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000203X
Release Date: 1995-03-06

Tracks:

Cl Qnts in A, K.581: Allegro
Cl Qnts in A, K.581: Larghetto
Cl Qnts in A, K.581: Menuetto
Cl Qnts in A, K.581: Allegretto Con Vars
Cl Qnt Fragment in B flat, K.516c: Allegro
Qnt Fragment in F, K.580b: Allegro

Amazon.com

This is a fascinating item for Mozart specialists. Scholars now suspect that Mozart wrote both his great Clarinet Quintet and the Clarinet Concertos for a lower- pitched version called the basset clarinet, and that is what Alan Hacker plays here, in a very mellow, slowly paced version of the work. The disc is filled out with completions of two fragmentary late Mozart works by one Duncan Druce. They aren't 100% Mozart, but they are interesting. For a more conventional version of the Clarinet Quintet on period instruments, coupled with other genuine Mozart, try Music from Aston Magna (Harmonia Mundi HMU 907059). --Leslie Gerber

Customer Reviews:

From the review in Gramophone.......2007-02-25

"Mozart's Quintet, like his Clarinet Concerto, survives only in an arrangement his publisher made after his death. As has been realized only recently, he wrote them for a clarinet with an extra joint at the bottom which added a third to the range. When this instrument failed to catch on, Mozart's publisher adjusted the very low notes to make the solo part playable on standard clarinets. The most recent Eulenburg score of the Concerto includes a page showing Alan Hacker's suggestions as to what Mozart himself probably wrote, and they seem to me wholly convincing. Oddly enough there are not nearly so many of these low notes in the Quintet and no adjustments at all are needed in the slow movement or in the main section of the Minuet. But the finale does benefit from Hacker's use of a modern extension on his early nineteenth-century clarinet. The stringed instruments on this record would also have met with Mozart's approval, and the result is an interesting performance of unusual authenticity. Both repeats are made in the first movement. The tempo of the slow movement does seem a little too slow to me, as does that of the Adagio variation in the finale, but the playing is nicely expressive and I liked Hacker's modest decorations in the slow movement reprise.

"The other two pieces were also meant for an extended clarinet, but Mozart never finished them. This need not be much regretted as regards the first one, but the much longer fragment with parts for basset horn and only three stringed instruments is lovely. Why did Mozart lose heart? Duncan Druce's completion is convincing and allows us to get to know some beautiful music. Sound quality on this record is first rate, as is the balance."

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