“Mozart wrote so beautifully for strings plus, probably better than anyone,” Bill says at the beginning of this week. Our listening starts with Mozart’s quartets for strings plus oboe and flute, then his quintet for strings plus clarinet. In Tuesday’s hour, we will listen to Samuel Barber’s Dover Beach, written for a string quartet and baritone. Barber sang the baritone part at its premiere in Philadelphia. Bill then adds to our playlist Hindemith, Mahler, and Bartók. Strings Plus is a colorful listening experience that ends with the chamber music of Johannes Brahms, and Joan Tower’s Petroushskates played by the eighth blackbird ensemble.
Strings Plus
Playlist
Episode 1
Mozart, Wolfgang: Quartet for Oboe & Strings, K. 370
Nash Ensemble; Hulse, oboe
Chamber Music
Virgin 61448
6:52
Mozart, Wolfgang: Quartet for Oboe & Strings, K. 370
Nash Ensemble; Hulse, oboe
Chamber Music
Virgin 61448
8:00
Mozart, Wolfgang: Quintet for Clarinet & Strings, Stadler, K. 581, I
BSO Chamber Players; Wright, clarinet
Mozart, Brahms: Clarinet Quintets
Phi 442149
9:27
Mozart, Wolfgang: Quintet for Clarinet & Strings, Stadler, K. 581, II
Emerson Quartet; Shifrin, clarinet
Mozart, Brahms: Clarinet Quintets
DG 459641
6:37
Mozart, Wolfgang: 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
Phil 422833
:13
Mozart, Wolfgang: 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
Mozart, Wolfgang: Quintet for Clarinet & Strings, Stadler, K. 581, IV
Kevafian & Arm, violins; Appel, viola; Sherry, violin cello; Shifrin, clarinet
Mozart: Clarinet Concerto
Delos 3020
9:18
Episode 2
Mozart, Wolfgang: Quintet for Clarinet & Strings, Stadler, K. 581, II (excerpt)
Emerson Quartet/Shifrin, clarinet
Mozart, Brahms: Clarinet Quintets
DG 459641
1:53
Mozart, Wolfgang: 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
Hindemith, Paul: Kammermusik for Orchestra, Op. 24 No. 1
Royal Concertgebouw/Chailly
Hindemith: Chamber Music
Decca 473722
15:09
Barber, Samuel: Dover Beach, Op. 3
Emerson Quartet/Hampson, baritone
Barber: Complete Songs
DG 459506
8:02
Hindemith, Paul: Trauermusik
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra/Blomstedt; Walther, viola
Trio – Hindemith: Orchestral Works
Decca 000201102
8:38
Mahler, Gustav: “Blicke mir nicht in die Lieder”
Hunt-Lieberson, messo soprano.; Vignoles, piano
Songs By Mahler, Handel and Peter Lieberson
Wigmore Hall 13
1:30
Mozart, Wolfgang: Quartet for Oboe & Strings, K. 370, II (excerpt)
Nash Ensemble; Hulse, oboe
Mozart: Dissonances / String Quartets KV 421 & 465 / Divertimento KV 138
Virgin 61448-50
2:09
Episode 3
Mozart, Wolfgang: Trio for Clarinet and Strings in Eb Major, Kegelstatt, K. 498, I
Nash Ensemble
Mozart: Dissonances / String Quartets KV 421 & 465 / Divertimento KV 138
Virgin 61448-50
5:42
Bartók, Bela: Contrasts, Sz. 111
Goodman, clarinet; Szigeti, violin; Bartók, piano
Collector’s Edition – Compositions & Collaborations – Bartók Bernstein Copland Gould Stravinsky
CBS 42227
16:57
Schumann, Robert: 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
Kuhlau, Friedrich: Quintet for Flute and Strings No. 3 in A Major (excerpts)
Juilliard String Quartet; Rampal, flute
Kuhlau: Flute Quintets Op 51
CBS 44517
3:41
Kuhlau, Friedrich: Quintet for Flute and Strings No. 3 in A Major (excerpts)
Juilliard String Quartet; Rampal, flute
Kuhlau: Flute Quintets Op 51
CBS 44517
1:49
Episode 4
Busch, Adolf: Quintet for Saxophone and Strings in E-flat Major, Op. 34, I
Erato Quartet; Roth, sax
Klarinettensonate, Lieder, Saxophoquintett
Ex Libris 6108
7:17
Schoenberg, Arnold: String Quartet No. 2, Op. 10
Schoenberg String Quartet; Narucki, soprano
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
Chandos 9939
11:05
Dvorák, Antonin: 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
Boccherini, Luigi: Quintet for Guitar and Strings No. 5 in D Major, Op. 50
Carmirelli, violin; Genualdi, violin; Naegele, viola; Rosen, violin cello; Starobin, guitar
Marlboro Fest 40th Anniversary- Boccherini: Quintets
Sony 47298
2:49
Episode 5
Brahms, Johannes: Quintet in b minor for Clarinet and Strings, Op. 115, I
Elysium String Quartet; Drucker, clarinet
Brahms: Clarinet Sonatas, Quintet
Elysium 720
12:11
Brahms, Johannes: 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
Brahms, Johannes: Quintet in b minor for Clarinet and Strings, Op. 115, III
Berlin Phil Octet; Stähr, clarinet
Brahms: Complete Quintets
Phil 446172
4:42
Brahms, Johannes: Quintet in b minor for Clarinet and Strings, Op. 115, IV
Emerson Quartet; Shifrin, clarinet
Mozart/Brahms: Clarinet Quintets
DG 459641
8:51
Tower, Joan: Petroushskates
eighth blackbird
Organ Masterpieces by Franck and Dupre
Cedille 67
5:49
Mozart, Wolfgang: Quintet for Horn and Strings, K. 407 (excerpts)
Gewandhaus Quartett; Baumann, horn
Mozart: Horn Quintet; Beethoven: Sextet
Phil 426440
7:20