This release, covering a pair of Mozart's late masterpieces for the clarinet, puts together a pair of performances recorded at different times and places, with indifferent sound in both church locations. The album's distinguishing feature is that it's a true historical-instrument performance, combining a so-called basset clarinet in the Clarinet Quintet in A major, K. 581, with historically oriented work from the other musicians, including the mostly Icelandic Skálholt String Quartet (the first violinist is the veteran ...
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This release, covering a pair of Mozart's late masterpieces for the clarinet, puts together a pair of performances recorded at different times and places, with indifferent sound in both church locations. The album's distinguishing feature is that it's a true historical-instrument performance, combining a so-called basset clarinet in the Clarinet Quintet in A major, K. 581, with historically oriented work from the other musicians, including the mostly Icelandic Skálholt String Quartet (the first violinist is the veteran Dutch performer Jaap Schröder). It's a bit strong to say, as in the booklet, that playing the Clarinet Quintet on a modern clarinet has led to a "distorted impression" of the work; there are just a few passages in which the extended low range of the basset clarinet is exploited. But there aren't many recordings played on the wooden instrument (unidentified, as is the fortepiano, and there are other questionable editorial matters in the booklet) for which Mozart imagined the work, whose...
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