Klarinet Archive - Posting 000136.txt from 2011/08

From: John Dablin <jdablin@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Clarinet quintets thanks
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 02:34:22 -0400

A bit late to the party, I'm afraid, but the other day I turned on the =

radio in the middle of a clarinet quintet, beautiful elegiac music that =

I didn't recognise. My first thought was Finzi, though I quickly =

realised it couldn't be. It turned out to be 'Souvenirs de Voyage' by =

Bernard Herrmann. It was a recording played by Julian Bliss with the =

Tippett Quartet (and as a 'blind' listening test it proved to me what a =

fine player he is).

It deserves to be better known, I think.

John Dablin
Aylesbury UK

On 17/08/11 23:33, Finn Jespersen wrote:
>
> Hi all! Thanks for all suggestions! I know Crussell and Krommer, but not =
their 5tets. Someone should try the 5tet by Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912). H=
e was an afro-british composer, conductor and professor, who made tours to =
the United States, and used both indian and african melodies in his works. =
He died young of pneumonia. I know a little of frensh-german Henri Marteau =
(1874-1924) and have just reheard his 5tet (Naxos, 8.551208 ?) with Klaus H=
ampl and Quartetto di Roma. Marteau was at his time a famous violinist, a f=
riend of Reger, who composed to him. Like so many others the 5tet is compos=
ed to M=FChlfeld, who should have played it in Schweitzerland in the summer=
1907, but who died a few days before. Instead it got its first performance=
in Sweden the following year. Marteau was present and presumably played th=
e viola part. He has a personally, inventive late-romantic style, but the w=
ork lacks unity. The information on Hindemiths last mouvement was good. I s=
hall try and hear
it "backward". Thanks also for suggestion to quartets. The Penderecki 4tet=
is on youtube with beautiful playing by swedish Martin Fr=F6st and co.
>
> b.w. Finn
> =

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