I have been listening to this quintet for almost 50 years and I still don’t get what all the shouting is about. Sure it’s nice easy-listening music to have on while doing chores, but people talk as if it were revolutionary genius music like _Don Giovanni_ or _Die Zauberflöte._ It’s not, you know. Not even close. And it doesn’t display anything special about the instrument, either. It would sound just as good played on an English horn or even a midrange brass instrument. Unlike, say, the Brahms Clarinet Quintet which has the clarinet’s special timbre and would lose everything without it.
I guess it is easy to forget that this Quintet and the Kegelstatt Trio were the first masterpieces written for the clarinet in a chamber music setting. On that fact alone, without even acknowledging the beauty, the playfulness and sheer joy in the music, it deserves its rightful place as a performer and audience favourite. I have played it over a 100 times, and I never fail to find a new moment in the work every time I play it. For me, it put the clarinet on the map in a chamber music world dominated by string quartets and piano trios.
The greあtest concert of all time. Bravo
The clarinet is so wonderful!
Nice!
I have been listening to this quintet for almost 50 years and I still don’t get what all the shouting is about. Sure it’s nice easy-listening music to have on while doing chores, but people talk as if it were revolutionary genius music like _Don Giovanni_ or _Die Zauberflöte._ It’s not, you know. Not even close.
And it doesn’t display anything special about the instrument, either. It would sound just as good played on an English horn or even a midrange brass instrument. Unlike, say, the Brahms Clarinet Quintet which has the clarinet’s special timbre and would lose everything without it.
I guess it is easy to forget that this Quintet and the Kegelstatt Trio were the first masterpieces written for the clarinet in a chamber music setting. On that fact alone, without even acknowledging the beauty, the playfulness and sheer joy in the music, it deserves its rightful place as a performer and audience favourite. I have played it over a 100 times, and I never fail to find a new moment in the work every time I play it. For me, it put the clarinet on the map in a chamber music world dominated by string quartets and piano trios.
@@pauldean7177 Well, that's a point, I suppose. It has a place in instrumental history.