Clarinet Quintets

A recording featuring outstanding late masterpieces: Brahms ripe with emotion and ending in a mood of resignation Reger with his densely meshed yet always transparent last work. The musicians playing together with Sharon Kam in the clarinet quintet bring these songs of farewell to life illuminating them and allowing them to flow as if in one concerted breath. Heartfelt feeling and transcendence The string quartet has a perfectly balanced homogeneous constitution and is justly deemed the quot;prime genrequot; of chamber music. What happens when it is joined by a clarinet a wind instrument with quite different registers? The clarinet may come to the fore with an accompaniment only to make a sudden retreat into the web of voices and provoke a startling change in timbre. The three most significant works for this scoring were written by Mozart Brahms and Reger the two latter works indebted to their respective predecessors - a highly instructive sequence. Sharon Kam recorded Mozart s Quintet in 2011 as a pe

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