Mozart's Trio K 498, known as the 'Kegelstatt' Trio, is unusual in its choice of instruments and form, lacking a real opening movement.
Performer Biography
Dimitri Ashkenazy, the clarinetist on this album, began playing piano at age six before switching to clarinet and studying at the Conservatory of Lucerne.
Composer Biography
Johannes Brahms, a composer featured on this album, had intended to stop composing in 1890 but was inspired to write more works after hearing clarinettist Richard Mühlfeld.
Performer Biography
Dimitri Ashkenazy has given world premiere performances of concertos by Marco Tutino and Filippo del Corno, and a clarinet quintet by Peter Maxwell Davies.
Compositional Technique
In Mozart's Clarinet Quintet K 581, the clarinet only fully takes over the main theme in the recapitulation of the first movement, despite its prominent role in other movements.
Performer Biography
Dimitri Ashkenazy has performed as a soloist with major orchestras worldwide, including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin.
Composition History
Alexander von Zemlinsky's Clarinet Trio, Op. 3, was composed in 1895 and published through the recommendation of Johannes Brahms, a prominent composer of the era.
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