Browse: Brahms - Clarinet Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 120 No. 1

…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…

It’s a heterogeneous selection, ranging from a relatively straight realisation of the final, unfinished Contrapunctus from Bach’s Art of Fugue, to baroque treatments of four Beatles numbers...It... — The Guardian, 16th January 2020 More…

These first-rate chamber musicians play these three late works with a rare sensitivity of understanding and delicacy of nuance. — BBC Music Magazine, May 2013, 5 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…

[G Major Sonata] Wallin plays with a sweet tone, producing some lovely pianos in the second movement, and pianist Pöntinen is agreeably responsive throughout. All three movements are notably... — Fanfare, January/February 2020 More…