Browse: Brahms - Clarinet Sonata No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 120 No. 2

…the young Swede Martin Fröst plays with elegant phrasing and beautiful, even produced tone… In the two sonatas, he's perfectly matched by his compatriot Roland Pöntinen in performances which... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2006, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The playing of these two fine artists offers high-class musical riches at every point, Tamestit finding a ceaseless range of tone-colours that always sounds natural rather than contrived. — BBC Music Magazine, May 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Brahms called Muhlfeld 'a master of his beautiful instrument', an epithet that could be extended to Collins who, with McHale, offers joyous performances of these lyrical but unsurprisingly cogent... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2015 More…

Bliss delivers the two sonatas with virtuoso mastery, with a feeling for line in the slower passages that could hold its own with any singer; Baillieu similarly excels throughout, deploying a... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2021, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 3 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

With the poignant flute solo in the middle of the passacaglia finale of the Fourth Symphony among the most tenderly reflective passages in all Brahms, it is sad that he did not write any work... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

If you didn’t know, you could easily accept this as an original. It helps that Ulf Wallin’s rich tone favours the lower tessitura where much of the music still resides, and that there’s a flow... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2020, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…