Swiss composer Xavier Lefèvre, who primarily worked in Paris, was a clarinetist and a legendary teacher of the instrument who published a Méthode for the instrument in 1802 that is critical to its history. Lefèvre was a prolific composer and, perhaps not surprisingly, the bulk of his work primarily features his own instrument, much as his contemporary Fernando Sor's worklist is dominated by music for the guitar. This Tudor disc, featuring outstanding Swiss clarinetist Eduard Brunner supported by an all-star cast of chamber ...
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Swiss composer Xavier Lefèvre, who primarily worked in Paris, was a clarinetist and a legendary teacher of the instrument who published a Méthode for the instrument in 1802 that is critical to its history. Lefèvre was a prolific composer and, perhaps not surprisingly, the bulk of his work primarily features his own instrument, much as his contemporary Fernando Sor's worklist is dominated by music for the guitar. This Tudor disc, featuring outstanding Swiss clarinetist Eduard Brunner supported by an all-star cast of chamber musicians including violinist Ana Chumachenco and cellist Wen-Sinn Yang, performs the first four of Lefèvre's six surviving quartets for clarinet, violin, viola, and cello. Although a dissertation on this set appeared as long ago as 1974, this is apparently the first time these works have been recorded.Just where Lefèvre got his model for such an interesting combination is a matter of some debate; the two clarinet quartets commonly accredited to Mozart are posthumous arrangements of...
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