This is a fine but frustrating disc. Admirers of the superb Swedish clarinettist Martin Fröst may already have this version of Brahms' Trio for clarinet, cello and piano Op 114, which was released ...

Jane Jones explores the work which was an end to early retirement for Brahms. After years of self criticism, and the burden of great expectation laid on his shoulders by friend and mentor Robert ...

Quintet for Clarinet and Strings Sabine Meyer, Clarinet Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer Carmina Quartet Allegro fragment Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer Carmina Quartet Sabine Meyer, Clarinet ...

Except perhaps for the stately way in which the Clarinet Quintet begins, there are no surprises in these performances. Michael Collins plays with his usual suave assurance, the Brodsky Quartet manage ...

Trio for Clarinet/Viola, Cello and Piano Johannes Brahms, Composer Martin Fröst, Clarinet Roland Pöntinen, Piano Torleif Thedéen, Cello (5) Lieder, Movements: No. 1, Wie Melodien zieht es mir (wds.

Brahms claimed to have written and destroyed 20 string quartets before he managed to complete any he wanted to keep. The two quartets of his Op. 51, which he wrote in 1873, ended a quarter century ...

Two of the great cornerstones of 19th-century chamber music were written by Brahms. Each, in a very different way, is a colossus, and each is a total masterpiece: of structure, craftsmanship and ...

David Bruce’s Gumboots looks back to the apartheid regime in South Africa, when miners had to toil in flooded gold mines wearing gumboots. The rhythms of them slapping their boots and chains are ...

NEW YORK — A century separates the clarinet quintets of Mozart and Brahms, but at the emotional heart of each sits a slow movement of rapt, bucolic calm. In both, the strings play with mutes, creating ...