“Mozart wrote for ‘strings plus’ – just one more instrument to genius – “probably better than anyone,” Bill says to begin a week of chamber music with great string playing and plus something else. Mozart courses through the week, but Episode Two blends Mozart into works by Barber, Hindemith, and Mahler, while Episode Three features Bartók (played by ”king of swing” clarinetist Benny Goodman) and Schumann. Bill ends the week with Brahms’s chamber music with strings and clarinet but also featuring American composer Joan Towers’s Petroushskates played by the eighth blackbird ensemble.
Strings Plus One
Playlist
Episode 1
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Quartet for Oboe & Strings, K. 370
Nash Ensemble; Hulse, oboe
Chamber Music
Virgin 61448; 6:52, 8:00
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Quintet for Clarinet & Strings, Stadler, K. 581, I
BSO Chamber Players; Wright, clarinet
Mozart, Brahms: Clarinet Quintets
Philips 442149; 9:27
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Quintet for Clarinet & Strings, Stadler, K. 581, II
Emerson Quartet; Shifrin, clarinet
Mozart, Brahms: Clarinet Quintets
DG 459641; 6:37
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Quintet for Clarinet & Strings, Stadler, K. 581, III (excerpt)
Academy of St. Martin in-the-Fields Chamber Ens; Pay, clarinet
Clarinet Quintet KV 581 / Oboe Quartet KV 370 / Horn Quintet KV 407
Philips 422833; :13
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Quintet for Clarinet & Strings, Stadler, K. 581, III
Academy of Ancient Music Chamber Ensemble; Pay, clarinet
Clarinet Quintet, Horn Quintet, Oboe Quartet
L’Oiseau Lyre 421429; 6:56
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Quintet for Clarinet & Strings, Stadler, K. 581, IV
Kevafian & Arm, violins; Appel, viola.; Sherry, violoncello; Shifrin, clarinet
Mozart: Clarinet Concerto
Delos 3020; 9:18
Episode 2
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Quintet for Clarinet & Strings, Stadler, K. 581, II (excerpt)
Emerson Quartet/Shifrin, clarinet
Mozart, Brahms: Clarinet Quintets
DG 459641; 1:53
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Quartet for Flute and Strings No. 1 in D Major, K. 285
Nash Ensemble; Davies, flute
Mozart: Dissonances / String Quartets KV 421 & 465 / Divertimento KV 138
Virgin 61448-50; 13:45
Paul Hindemith: Kammermusik for Orchestra, Op. 24 No. 1
Royal Concertgebouw/Chailly
Hindemith: Chamber Music
Decca 473722; 15:09
Samuel Barber: Dover Beach, Op. 3
Emerson Quartet/Hampson, baritone
Barber: Complete Songs
DG 459506; 8:02
Paul Hindemith: Trauermusik
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra/Blomstedt; Walther, viola
Trio – Hindemith: Orchestral Works
Decca 000201102; 8:38
Gustav Mahler: “Blicke mir nicht in die Lieder”
Hunt-Lieberson, mezzo-soprano; Vignoles, piano
Songs By Mahler, Handel and Peter Lieberson
Wigmore Hall 13; 1:30
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Quartet for Oboe & Strings, K. 370, II (excerpt)
Nash Ensemble; Hulse, oboe
Mozart: Dissonances / String Quartets KV 421 & 465 / Divertimento KV 138
Virgin 61448; 2:09
Episode 3
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Trio for Clarinet and Strings in E-Flat Major, Kegelstatt, K. 498, I
Nash Ensemble
Mozart: Dissonances / String Quartets KV 421 & 465 / Divertimento KV 138
Virgin 61448-50; 5:42
Béla Bartók: Contrasts, Sz. 111
Goodman, clarinet; Szigeti, viola; Bartók, piano
Collector’s Edition – Compositions & Collaborations – Bartók Bernstein Copland Gould Stravinsky
CBS 42227; 16:57
Robert Schumann: Quintet for Piano & Strings in E-flat Major, Op. 44, I-III
Budapest String Quartet; Serkin, piano
Schumann: Piano Concerto, Piano Quintet
CBS 37256; 22:48
Friedrich Kuhlau: Quintet for Flute and Strings No. 3 in A Major (excerpts)
Julliard String Quartet; Rampal, flute
Kuhlau: Flute Quintets Op. 51
CBS 44517; 3:41, 1:49
Episode 4
Adolf Busch: Quintet for Saxophone and Strings in E-flat Major, Op. 34, I
Erato Quartet; Roth, sax
Adolf Busch. Klarinettenson
Ex Libris 6108; 7:17
Arnold Schoenberg: String Quartet No. 2, Op. 10
Schoenberg String Quartet; Narucki, soprano
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
Chandos 9939; 11:05
Antonín Dvorák: Piano Quintet in A Major, Op. 81, I & II
Takács String Quartet; Haefliger, piano
Dvorak: Piano Quintet No 2, String Quartet No. 10
Decca 466197; 27:40
Luigi Boccherini: Quintet for Guitar and Strings No. 5 in D Major, Op. 50
Carmirelli, violin; Genualdi, violin; Naegele, viola; Rosen, violoncello; Starobin, guitar
Marlboro Fest 40th Anniversary- Boccherini: Quintets
Sony 47298; 2:49
Episode 5
Johannes Brahms: Quintet in b minor for Clarinet and Strings, Op. 115, I
Elysium String Quartet; Drucker, clarinet
Brahms: Clarinet Sonatas, Quintet
Elysium 720; 12:11
Johannes Brahms: Quintet in b minor for Clarinet and Strings, Op. 115, II
Melos Ensemble; de Peyer, clarinet
Mozart, Brahms: Clarinet Quintets
EMI Seraphim 74520; 11:28
Johannes Brahms: Quintet in b minor for Clarinet and Strings, Op. 115, III
Berlin Phil Octet; Stähr, clarinet
Brahms: Complete Quintets
Philips 446172; 4:42
Johannes Brahms: Quintet in b minor for Clarinet and Strings, Op. 115, IV
Emerson Quartet; Shifrin, clarinet
Mozart/Brahms: Clarinet Quintets
DG 459641; 8:51
Joan Tower: Petroushskates
eighth blackbird
Organ Masterpieces by Franck and Dupre
Cedille 67; 5:49
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Quintet for Horn and Strings, K. 407 (excerpts)
Gewandhaus Quartet; Baumann, horn
Mozart: Horn Quintet; Beethoven: Sextet
Phil 426440; 7:20