Art of the Clarinet

Here we have core clarinet chamber music repertoire: Beethoven: Trio in B flat, Op. 11, Brahms: Trio in A minor, Op. 114 Berg: Four Pieces for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 5, Mendelssohn: Konzertstücke 1 & 2 for Clarinet, Basset-Horn and Piano, Opp. 113 & 114, The clarinetist is one of the best, Peter Schmidl, principal clarinet of the Vienna Philharmonic. His colleagues, Madoka Inui, piano; Teodora Mileva, cello; and Pierre Pichler, basset-horn, are fully his equals. The playing is suave, the ensemble tightly coordinated and the recorded sound clear and life-like. This is 68 minutes of unalloyed beauty.