George Onslow
Quintet for two violins, viola and two violoncellos G minor (1849)
Krzysztof Penderecki
Quartet for clarinet and string trio (1993)
Johannes Brahms
Quintet for clarinet and string quartet B minor (1891)
- Blaž Šparovec clarinet
- Dylan Naylor violin
- Toshiko Tamayo violine
- Nathan Braude viola
- Georg Heimbach violoncello
- Franziska Leube violoncello
A deaf ear and a bullet in the neck did not prevent France’s most famous chamber musician George Onslow from composing a total of 34 string quintets. In Cologne, too, the composer was played highly successfully even in his lifetime. Like Johannes Brahms, whose clarinet quintet many consider one of his most beautiful works. Krzysztof Penderecki contrasts a transparent counterpoint with Brahms’s close-knit tapestry of voices, until the clarinet seduces the strings to waltz.