About the Album
Tempos are ideal, giving Mozart's luxurious, long-breathed yet fragile melodies plenty of time to unfold without sacrificing animation or expressive point. Understatement rules in this interpretation, which is all the more intense and poignant because of it. The coupling is a rich, ripe, romantic account of the Brahms quintet, conveyed with passionate address and in a manner more conversational and polyphonic, less homogeneous in sound, than most. It is a dramatic and eventful reading, but one in which lyricism and beauty of tone are never sacrificed. --Ted Libbey
Mozart: Quintet for Clarinet and String Quartet in A major, K 581; Brahms: Quintet for Clarinet and String Quartet in B minor, Op. 115
David Shifrin, Clarinet
Mozart/Brahms: Clarinet Quintets
Mozart/Brahms: Clarinet Quintets
Tempos are ideal, giving Mozart's luxurious, long-breathed yet fragile melodies plenty of time to unfold without sacrificing animation or expressive point. Understatement rules in this interpretation, which is all the more intense and poignant because of it. The coupling is a rich, ripe, romantic account of the Brahms quintet, conveyed with passionate address and in a manner more conversational and polyphonic, less homogeneous in sound, than most. It is a dramatic and eventful reading, but one in which lyricism and beauty of tone are never sacrificed. --Ted Libbey
Mozart: Quintet for Clarinet and String Quartet in A major, K 581; Brahms: Quintet for Clarinet and String Quartet in B minor, Op. 115
David Shifrin, Clarinet
The Emersons and clarinetist Shifrin emphasize smoothness of line and a creamy blend of sound in this polished 1997 performance of the Mozart quintet.
Tempos are ideal, giving Mozart's luxurious, long-breathed yet fragile melodies plenty of time to unfold without sacrificing animation or expressive point. Understatement rules in this interpretation, which is all the more intense and poignant because of it. The coupling is a rich, ripe, romantic account of the Brahms quintet, conveyed with passionate address and in a manner more conversational and polyphonic, less homogeneous in sound, than most. It is a dramatic and eventful reading, but one in which lyricism and beauty of tone are never sacrificed. --Ted Libbey
Mozart: Quintet for Clarinet and String Quartet in A major, K 581; Brahms: Quintet for Clarinet and String Quartet in B minor, Op. 115
David Shifrin, Clarinet
Tempos are ideal, giving Mozart's luxurious, long-breathed yet fragile melodies plenty of time to unfold without sacrificing animation or expressive point. Understatement rules in this interpretation, which is all the more intense and poignant because of it. The coupling is a rich, ripe, romantic account of the Brahms quintet, conveyed with passionate address and in a manner more conversational and polyphonic, less homogeneous in sound, than most. It is a dramatic and eventful reading, but one in which lyricism and beauty of tone are never sacrificed. --Ted Libbey
Mozart: Quintet for Clarinet and String Quartet in A major, K 581; Brahms: Quintet for Clarinet and String Quartet in B minor, Op. 115
David Shifrin, Clarinet
Album Info
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Catalog Num: DG 459 641-2