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The Music => Recordings & Broadcasts => Topic started by: Alan Howe on Wednesday 29 May 2013, 22:26

Title: Clarinet Quintets by Strässer & Marteau from Sterling
Post by: Alan Howe on Wednesday 29 May 2013, 22:26
Surely a ravishing CD is in prospect here...
http://www.sterlingcd.com/catalogue/cda1683.html (http://www.sterlingcd.com/catalogue/cda1683.html)
Title: Re: Clarinet Quintets by Strässer & Marteau from Sterling
Post by: petershott@btinternet.com on Wednesday 29 May 2013, 22:47
Ooooh! Many thanks, Alan. One to be pursued with considerable interest.
Title: Re: Clarinet Quintets by Strässer & Marteau from Sterling
Post by: eschiss1 on Thursday 30 May 2013, 02:44
Oh, I like this. Two composers I like a lot, and I've seen the Strässer quintet though not yet heard it. Thanks!
Title: Re: Clarinet Quintets by Strässer & Marteau from Sterling
Post by: Mark Thomas on Thursday 30 May 2013, 07:57
Ah, a potential gem. I met Stephan Siegentahler  a couple of years ago and he is absolutely committed to expanding the recorded romantic clarinet repertoire.
Title: Re: Clarinet Quintets by Strässer & Marteau from Sterling
Post by: JimL on Thursday 30 May 2013, 14:32
Quote from: Mark Thomas on Thursday 30 May 2013, 07:57
Ah, a potential gem. I met Stephan Siegentahler  a couple of years ago and he is absolutely committed to expanding the recorded romantic clarinet repertoire.
Great!  Maybe he can do the Rietz concerto!
Title: Re: Clarinet Quintets by Strässer & Marteau from Sterling
Post by: Mark Thomas on Thursday 30 May 2013, 14:36
Here's Stephan's website (http://www.clarinetclassics.ch/pages/intro.php) if you'd like to ask him direct.
Title: Re: Clarinet Quintets by Strässer & Marteau from Sterling
Post by: eschiss1 on Thursday 30 May 2013, 15:45
The Rietz concerto has been recorded, though not very often and a new recording would be a good idea (I seem to recall having heard it).

(There are clarinet quintets by Krehl (in A, pub.1902, republished 1997) and Täglichsbeck (in B♭, pub.1863) that look interesting... Krehl's string quartet sounds good enough that I'd like to hear the quintet (actually, now that I look, there does seem to have been a recording of it on K617- "Les deux quintettes avec clarinette dédiés à Richard Mühlfeld"- oh. Erm. Never mind, then...)