This album was recorded in St Barnabas's Church, North Finchley, London, on January 24 and 25, 1983.
Compositional Technique
The Clarinet Quintet's first movement is Brahms's last very large sonata structure; he later concentrated on smaller forms of great density.
Compositional Technique
In the Clarinet Quintet, the clarinet is not treated as a soloist, except where its sound is essential to the overall aural canvas, making it a true quintet.
Compositional Technique
Brahms's Clarinet Quintet features a variation-finale, which distills the work's elegiac substances and brings back the first movement theme at the end.
Composer Biography
Richard Mühlfeld was the dedicatee of four late works by Brahms: the two Clarinet Sonatas, the Clarinet Trio, and the Clarinet Quintet.
Composer Biography
Richard Mühlfeld, a clarinettist, inspired Brahms's Clarinet Quintet and was its dedicatee in 1891.
Composition History
Both the Clarinet Quintet and Clarinet Trio by Brahms were written in the summer of 1891.
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