für Klarinette 2 Violinen Viola und Violoncello-1890 est l?année où Brahms envisagea d?arrêter de composer. Heureusement sa rencontre avec Richard von Mühlfeld clarinettiste du célèbre orchestre de la cour de Meiningen le détourna de ce projet et l?incita dès 1891 à composer le trio avec clarinette op. 114 ainsi que le quintette avec clarinette op. 115 ? deux des ?uvres les plus extraordinaires qui soient parmi le répertoire de cet instrument. Les premières exécutions publiques eurent lieu à Berlin et un peu plus tard à Vienne et furent couronnées d?un tel succès que Joseph Joachim désigna le quintette avec clarinette comme l?une des meilleures ?uvres jamais composées par Brahms. Comme toujours la présente édition urtext deséditions Henle a donné lieu à l?analyse approfondie de toutes les sources pertinentes. Les corrections personnelles de Brahms y ont également été intégrée.

Clarinet Quintet in A major op. 146-With his Clarinet quintet begun in 1915 Reger was remembering his role models Mozart and Brahms whose works in this genre he particularly admired. This melancholic quintet that is worked through in a strictlymotivic way was to be Reger’s last opus.Shortly after he had sent it to his publisher he died of heart attack in May 1916. The quintet was to become his swan song first performed at a memorial for the composer on6 November 1916. Almost one hundred years later we are now publishing it for the first time in an Urtext edition edited by the Reger scholar Michael Kube.

Robin Milford was a friend of Gerald Finzi and this work certainly owes something to that major 20th century composer. The Quintet is full of wonderful tunes as well as robust and characteristic writing for both the Clarinet and Strings. Arranged for Clarinet and String Quartet.

Parts for Arthur Bliss's Quintet For Clarinet And String Quartet. Duration 26 minutes. Composed 1932.

By the age of forty Finnish composer Magnus Lindberg was one of the busiest concert composers in the world. His music avails itself of all manner of modern innovations but there is a Neo-Classical orientation in his harmoniesand formal design that makes his works appealing to a wide audience. The Quintet for Clarinet and Strings was comissioned by Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival and first performed in this festival in Finland in 1992. In the composer'sown words: 'Despite its rather extended duration (almost 20 minutes) the work is in one continuous movement. Sections are based on either a static material composed of different scales giving the music an 'insect like'appereance or on directional processes forcing the music to gradually change character or even physically pushing the music to extreme registers or speed.' This edition contains all the Parts.