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Author: wjk
Date: 2003-04-05 01:24
Can anyone suggest a recording of the Brahm's clarinet quintet? Which clarinetists performed it the best?
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Author: Mitch K.
Date: 2003-04-05 01:54
My personal favorites are David Shifrin with the Emerson Quartet, then Harold Wright with the Boston Chamber Players. The Shifrin recording is on DG, and the Wright is on Philips.....I think!
Cheers,
Mitch King
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Author: Tom Piercy
Date: 2003-04-05 20:09
Some faves:
Clarinetist and Label
Gervase de Peyer
Angel Records
Reginald Kell with Adolf Busch Quartet
Pearl
Stanley Drucker
Elysium Records
Jack Brymer
Medici
Tom Piercy
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Author: Micaela
Date: 2003-04-06 15:48
I like David Shifrin's recording with the Emerson Quartet as well. It is DG.
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2003-04-07 13:30
My favorite is Yona Ettlinger, on a long-deleted LP.
I learned the piece from the Kell/Fine Arts Qt. Decca LP, which I still think is great. Kell made a very good earlier recording with the Busch Quartet, which is available on CD. The sound is a bit primitive, though.
Leister's earliest recording is very good. The later ones are perfect but bland.
Dare I recommend Stoltzman? It's reasonably "straight," and every phrase is alive.
Thea King is excellent.
Wright, of course.
Mitchell Lurie.
Charles Draper -- primitive sound, but excellent performance
Frederick Thurston -- a legendary, impossible to find version -- one of the last acoustic 78s made, and immediately eclipsed by the electric Draper -- I'd die for a copy.
Best regards.
Ken Shaw
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Author: graham
Date: 2003-04-07 15:40
My suggestions have already been mentioned.
The best Brahms Quintet recording that has never been made (which by the way I have also never heard and might never even have taken place!) is (would be) Klocker's.
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Author: Brad
Date: 2003-04-07 18:18
Eddie Daniels on Reference Records (#40) does an outstanding job on the Brahms and Weber quintets. An amazing demonstration of Mr. Daniels' versatility.
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Author: David Spiegelthal ★2017
Date: 2003-04-07 19:18
Last year I heard on-the-air a live performance of Franklin Cohen with his colleagues from the Cleveland Orchestra doing the Brahms quintet --- knocked my socks off, wish it had been recorded on CD.........
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Author: Sylvain
Date: 2003-04-07 19:30
Alessandro Carbonare on Harmonia Mundi is one the best newer recordings I have heard.
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Sylvain Bouix <sbouix@gmail.com>
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Author: kchan ★2017
Date: 2003-04-07 21:26
I haven't heard it myself, but many people have told me over the years that the best recording (or at least the one to hear) is by Al Gallodoro. It's finally been resleased on CD http://www.algallodoro.com/.
Kenwrick
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Author: D Dow
Date: 2003-04-07 21:53
Lately I have been getting into the Carbonare record on Harmonia Mundi CD label. the slow movement is an inspiration!!! I was in France in the mid 80s studying and heard him play live, and I can say Wow!!! His coupling on this disc is a fine Mozart Quintet which is truly fine as well.
David Dow
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2003-04-08 15:15
Kenwrick -
The recording of the Brahms Quintet on the Gallodoro CD is not the same one that was issued on LP. The CD is quite good, but the LP was much better.
The LP was issued in the early 1950s on the Concert Hall label. It was made in the very early days of LPs, before tape recorders had become generally used, and Concert Hall was a dirt cheap label, with no money for frills, so each movement was recorded in a single take, with no editing.
It's a remarkable performance, totally unlike any other. It's very masculine and even virtuosic. The players waste no time and ignore the idea that this is somehow the swan song of the ancient Brahms, in his "autumnal" days.
Gallodoro is an amazing technician, and several legends have grown up around this recording -- for example, that that he owned no A clarinet and transposed everything and that he borrowed a plastic (or at least student-quality wood) A clarinet for the recording. However, he was a member of the NBC Symphony at the time, and Kalmen Opperman has told me that he owned and used an excellent A clarinet.
Unfortunately, the Concert Hall recording was pretty primitive. The label was notorious for poor sound and crunchy pressings on thin red vinyl. I have a copy of this pressing and also of a later pressing on black vinyl, which is a bit less bad. The disks had no groove guard (where the label and rim are raised to prevent rubbing of the grooves) and the inner liners (when they were used at all) were extremely flimsy waxed paper, which fell apart when you took the record out. The upshot is that recording was redone for the CD available from Gallodoro's web site.
Best regards.
Ken Shaw
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