Brahms: String Quartet, Clarinet Quintet
) | Label: CHANDOS Catalog: CHAN 10817 Format: CD STRING QUARTET NO. 2 / CLARINE The Brodsky Quartet present the first of two discs featuring Brahms’s complete string quartets. The String Quartet Op. 51 No. 2 is warm, affirmative and relaxed, with few extremes of mood or tempo. The Clarinet Quintet, op. 115 explores an atmosphere of elegy and nostalgia, producing a mood of autumnal resignation. Having often performed this work in concert, the renowned Brodsky Quartet and clarintetist Michael Collins come together once again for this recording.  Price: $25.98 |