This 1992 recording of two clarinet works by Mozart has richly merited reissue. The Quintet for clarinet and strings in A major, K. 581, and the Trio for clarinet, viola, and piano in E flat major, K. 498 ("Kegelstatt" -- the closest translation into American English would be bowling pin), are recorded by members of the Quatuor Mosaïques, clarinetist Wolfgang Meyer, and keyboardist Patrick Cohen on period instruments. At this point in time the instruments, except for the fortepiano, aren't far removed in sound from their ...
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This 1992 recording of two clarinet works by Mozart has richly merited reissue. The Quintet for clarinet and strings in A major, K. 581, and the Trio for clarinet, viola, and piano in E flat major, K. 498 ("Kegelstatt" -- the closest translation into American English would be bowling pin), are recorded by members of the Quatuor Mosaïques, clarinetist Wolfgang Meyer, and keyboardist Patrick Cohen on period instruments. At this point in time the instruments, except for the fortepiano, aren't far removed in sound from their modern cousins. Meyer plays a basset clarinet, which has a few notes of added lower range and a somewhat reedier, more cutting sound than a modern clarinet; its shifts in register are quite pronounced, and Meyer brings out points in the music (hear especially the variation finale of the Clarinet Quintet) where Mozart seems to have been exploiting this characteristic of the instrument's sound.More than a case in which historical instruments reproduce the music's intended textures, this...
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