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Quatuor Ebene and Martin Frost at Wigmore Hall

Recorded at Wigmore Hall, Quatuor Ebene play Beethoven's String Quartet in G, Faure's Stromg Quartet in E minor and, with Martin Frost, Brahms's Clarinet Quintet in B minor.

'It is enough to give all those people who are not Beethoven the jitters!' wrote Gabriel Faur茅 to his wife as he began his string quartet in 1923, the year before he died. Stravinsky's Rite of Spring was already a decade old, Schoenberg had embarked on serialism and the composers of Les Six were the toast of fashionable Paris. But Faur茅 ploughed on in his unique modal style and his quartet in fact owes little to Beethoven, let alone to any of Faur茅's contemporaries. Brahms's Clarinet Quintet is another late, great work which finds its composer at the height of his powers, comfortable with himself in old age. By contrast, Beethoven's Quartet in G major, Op.18, No.2 is Beethoven in unbuttoned, richly humorous mood, playful and witty. It's a programme which demands superb musicianship and which has it in abundance with Quatuor Eb猫ne and clarinettist Martin Fr枚st.

Recorded yesterday at Wigmore Hall and presented by Martin Handley.

Beethoven: String Quartet in G major, Op.18, No.2
Faur茅: String Quartet in E minor, Op.121

Quatuor Eb猫ne

c8:20 INTERVAL
Faure: Masques et bergamasques - suite Op.112
蜜芽传媒 Philharmonic
Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)

Brahms: Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115

Martin Fr枚st (clarinet)
Quatuor Eb猫ne.

2 hours, 30 minutes

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Tue 26 Jun 2018 19:30
蜜芽传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    String Quartet In G Major Op.18 No.2

    Ensemble: Quatuor 脡b猫ne.

  • Gabriel Faur茅

    String Quartet In E Minor, Op.121

    Ensemble: Quatuor 脡b猫ne.

  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Masques Et Bergamasques - Suite Op.112

    Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier.
    • Chandos CHAN9416.
    • Chandos.
    • 1.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Clarinet Quintet In B Minor, Op.115

    Performer: Martin Frost. Ensemble: Quatuor 脡b猫ne.

  • Mieczys艂aw Weinberg

    Piano Quintet Op. 18

    Performer: Yulianna Avdeeva. Performer: Kremerata Baltica.
    • ECM : 481 4604.
    • ECM.
    • 3-5.

Broadcast

  • Tue 26 Jun 2018 19:30
    蜜芽传媒 Radio 3

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