℗ 2020 Foghorn Classics
Released | August 14, 2020 |
Duration | 1h 11m 26s |
Record Label | Foghorn Classics |
Catalogue No. | FCL2021 |
Genre | Classical (Chamber) |
Brahms & Mozart: Clarinet Quintets
Eli Eban, Alexander String Quartet, Zakarias Grafilo, Frederick Lifsitz, Paul Yarbrough, Sandy Wilson
Available in 96 kHz / 24-bit AIFF, FLAC high resolution audio formats
Clarinet Quintet in A Major, K. 581
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1.1
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I. Allegro
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Eli Eban; Alexander String Quartet; Zakarias Grafilo; Frederick Lifsitz; Paul Yarbrough; Sandy Wilson |
9:28 | |||
1.2
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II. Larghetto
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Eli Eban; Alexander String Quartet; Zakarias Grafilo; Frederick Lifsitz; Paul Yarbrough; Sandy Wilson |
6:20 | |||
1.3
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III. Menuetto
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Eli Eban; Alexander String Quartet; Zakarias Grafilo; Frederick Lifsitz; Paul Yarbrough; Sandy Wilson |
7:07 | |||
1.4
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IV. Allegretto con variazioni
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Eli Eban; Alexander String Quartet; Zakarias Grafilo; Frederick Lifsitz; Paul Yarbrough; Sandy Wilson |
9:33 | |||
Clarinet Quintet in B Minor, Op. 115
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1.5
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I. Allegro
Johannes Brahms; Eli Eban; Alexander String Quartet; Zakarias Grafilo; Frederick Lifsitz; Paul Yarbrough; Sandy Wilson |
13:13 | |||
1.6
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II. Adagio
Johannes Brahms; Eli Eban; Alexander String Quartet; Zakarias Grafilo; Frederick Lifsitz; Paul Yarbrough; Sandy Wilson |
11:28 | |||
1.7
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III. Andantino
Johannes Brahms; Eli Eban; Alexander String Quartet; Zakarias Grafilo; Frederick Lifsitz; Paul Yarbrough; Sandy Wilson |
4:50 | |||
1.8
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IV. Con moto
Johannes Brahms; Eli Eban; Alexander String Quartet; Zakarias Grafilo; Frederick Lifsitz; Paul Yarbrough; Sandy Wilson |
9:27 | |||
Digital Booklet
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“Eban’s variety of tone helps make the entire quintet sound wonderful...[and how the ASQ] manages to create a sound that is blended while still retaining an individuality of sound in each of the four voices is a miracle I have not yet figured out…”
- Lynn René Bayley, Art Music Lounge
Composers have been drawn to the combination of clarinet and string quartet ever since the clarinet began to take shape in the eighteenth century. The mellow sound and agility of the clarinet make it an ideal complement to the resonant warmth and harmonic richness of the string quartet, and the range of composers who have written for this pairing is extraordinarily diverse, including Weber, Meyerbeer, Reger, Busoni, Hindemith, and — more recently — Carter and Widmann. Yet all these compositions, varied as they are, exist within the shadow of the two towering masterpieces composed for clarinet and string quartet, the quintets of Mozart and Brahms.
Those two quintets are invariably paired in recordings, as they are on this album - and it is quite right that they should be.
They are two of the finest chamber works by two of the greatest composers, and there are many parallels between them: both were written late in their creators’ lives, both were inspired by contact with a particular clarinetist, and both beautifully integrate the quite different sonorities of clarinet and string quartet. Neither work is in any way valedictory, yet — coming near the end of each composer’s life — they represent some of the most refined and expressive music of Mozart and Brahms.
96 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Foghorn Classics Studio Masters
Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -1.10 -3.40 to -0.16 | -22.30 -24.16 to -21.02 | -19.10 -21.30 to -17.80 | 13 12 to 15 | |
1 | I. Allegro | -0.88 | -21.02 | -18.0 | 12 |
2 | II. Larghetto | -3.40 | -24.16 | -21.3 | 12 |
3 | III. Menuetto | -0.98 | -21.48 | -18.3 | 13 |
4 | IV. Allegretto con variazioni | -0.53 | -23.03 | -19.7 | 15 |
5 | I. Allegro | -0.18 | -21.23 | -17.8 | 13 |
6 | II. Adagio | -0.16 | -22.46 | -19.1 | 13 |
7 | III. Andantino | -1.77 | -22.59 | -19.3 | 12 |
8 | IV. Con moto | -0.89 | -22.45 | -19.3 | 13 |