New. Strange Loops: Clarinet Quintets
Mark van de Wiel (clarinet), Soloists of the Philharmonia
[van de Wiel] is alert to every acrobatic gesture and his range of colours is iridescent and fluid. With splendid support from his Philharmonia string colleagues it would be difficult to imagine...
New. Strange Loops: Clarinet Quintets
Mark van de Wiel (clarinet), Soloists of the Philharmonia
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[van de Wiel] is alert to every acrobatic gesture and his range of colours is iridescent and fluid. With splendid support from his Philharmonia string colleagues it would be difficult to imagine...
About
Strange Loops presents clarinettist Mark van de Wiel with colleagues from the Philharmonia Orchestra in three works spanning over two centuries of chamber music. The album centres on the first recording of Anna Clyne’s Strange Loops, written in 2020 and exploring repeating and transforming musical patterns. It is paired with Ruth Gipps’s Rhapsody, a single-movement work highlighting the clarinet’s lyrical and colouristic qualities, and Carl Maria von Weber’s virtuosic Clarinet Quintet, composed for Heinrich Baermann. Recorded at Garsington Studios in 2024, the programme reflects van de Wiel’s longstanding commitment to both contemporary and established clarinet repertoire.
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Awards and reviews
September 2026
[van de Wiel] is alert to every acrobatic gesture and his range of colours is iridescent and fluid. With splendid support from his Philharmonia string colleagues it would be difficult to imagine a better anniversary gift than this mercurial account of a memorable masterpiece.
7th August 2026
Van de Wiel is dark-toned and buttery in a performance [of the Gipps] that matches dramatic resolve with sonic beauty...Weber’s Clarinet Quintet gets a virtuoso outing with plenty of colour and pliable tempi.
