Mozart: Clarinet Quintet & Quintet Fragments: in completions by Robert Levin and Franz Beyer

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Robert Levin's completion of a rondo originally destined for the Clarinet Quintet lends fresh perspective on a familiar piece whose colours glow courtesy of Lawson's basset clarinet. — BBC Music Magazine, April 2013, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 8th Oct 2012
Catalogue No: CC0068
Label: Clarinet Classics
Length: 60 minutes

Mozart: Clarinet Quintet in A major, K581

Work length32:33

$7.00

$9.10

Colin Lawson (clarinet)
Revolutionary Drawing Room

I. Allegro

Track length9:33

$2.00

$2.60

II. Larghetto

Track length6:28

$1.00

$1.30

III. Menuetto

Track length7:01

$2.00

$2.60

IV. Allegretto con variazioni

Track length9:31

$2.00

$2.60

Mozart: Rondo in A Major, K. Anh. 88 (Completed by R. Levin)

Work length5:57

$1.00

$1.30

Colin Lawson (clarinet)
Revolutionary Drawing Room

Mozart: Allegro in B-Flat Major, K. Anh. 91 (Completed by R. Levin)

Work length8:17

$2.00

$2.60

Colin Lawson (clarinet)
Revolutionary Drawing Room

Mozart: Andante Rondo for Clarinet Quintet

Work length0:47

$1.00

$1.30

Colin Lawson (clarinet)
Revolutionary Drawing Room

Mozart: Allegro in F Major, K. Anh. 90 (Completed by F. Beyer)

Work length12:48

$3.00

$3.85

Colin Lawson (clarinet), Michael Harris (basset horn)
Revolutionary Drawing Room

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Mozart created the medium of the Clarinet Quintet K581 by means of a process that involved a number of preliminary experimental fragments, all of which can also be heard on this disc. Like the Clarinet Concerto, the Quintet K581 was intended for Stadler’s basset clarinet in A, which was furnished with an additional four semitones at the bottom of the compass. Colin Lawson’s boxwood basset clarinet (modelled on Viennese instruments of the period) was especially created for him in 1988 by the Cambridge maker Daniel Bangham. For the Allegro in F K580b he plays the more brilliant clarinet in C and is joined by Michael Harris (basset horn). The Allegro K516c features the extremely rare Bb basset clarinet used elsewhere by Mozart only in the virtuoso obbligato to ‘Parto, parto’ from La Clemenza di Tito. Colin Lawson, described by BBC Music Magazine as ‘the doyen of period clarinettists’ explores Mozart’s original sound world in partnership with his colleagues from The Revolutionary Drawing Room.

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April 2013

Robert Levin's completion of a rondo originally destined for the Clarinet Quintet lends fresh perspective on a familiar piece whose colours glow courtesy of Lawson's basset clarinet.

March 2013

It's an enlightened beginning to an interpretation of distinction...[Lawson] draws from his basset (copy of a period model, as are the other clarinets used here) a woody tone of subtly varied hues, balanced with strings equally sensitive to the composer's skills in texturing.

2nd May 2013

The biggest draw here is the fragmentary odds and ends: you’ve probably never heard this eight-bar fragment for clarinet and string quartet, which is unbearably intriguing...this is a fascinating peek at Mozart’s clarinet music: that is, the clarinet music you’ve never before heard.

6th January 2013

Period-copy instruments by Daniel Bangham lend a piquancy both emotional and scholarly to this disc supplementing Mozart’s sublime Quintet, K581, for basset clarinet in A and strings, with associated chamber fragments

3rd January 2013

Colin Lawson uses a modern copy of [a basset clarinet] for his performance of the quintet with the period strings of the Revolutionary Drawing Room; there's a wonderful smoky smoothness to his tone that's distinctly different from the sound of the period clarinet he uses in one of the Mozart fragments that complete the disc

Mozart: Clarinet Quintet & Quintet Fragments

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