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Re: Not your mother's Brahms Clarinet Quintet (Mühlfeldtänze)

Author: dorjepismo ★2017
Date: 2018-05-27 20:51

Well, I'd much rather listen to, you know, the Brahms Quintet, but the piece is very competently put together and is interesting. As these things go and given the huge volume of stuff being written, it seems well above average. One thing that always came to mind during those decades when a large percentage of "serious" composers felt compelled to write serial stuff was that the underlying motivations of these folks in writing music seemed to quite different from those of people like Brahms and Beethoven--what they were trying to accomplish wasn't anything like the same. I think a lot of the reason lots of us want to play the Brahms Quintet is that he really wanted to touch something deep and compelling with it.

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