Since you are interested in The English Clarinet (Incls Finzi - 5 Bagatelles, Op. 23), here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
GERALD FINZI
Finzi: Clarinet Concerto / Five Bagatelles / Three Soliloquies, etc Robert Plane (clarinet) / Northern Sinfonia / Howard Griffiths [ Naxos / CD - released 3/Jul/1999 ] "A highly accomplished, indeed commanding performance of Finzi's gorgeous Clarinet Concerto....another remarkable British music bargain from Naxos" - Gramophone |
W.A. MOZART
Clarinet Quintets Jozsef Balogh (clarinet) / Danubius Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 13/Feb/2006 ] "this account holds its own alongside many at full price" - BBC Music Magazine |
BEETHOVEN / RIES
Ries: Clarinet Trios Jurgen Demmler (clarinet) / Peter Grabinger (piano) / Markus Tillier (cello) [ Naxos / CD - released 13/Feb/2006 ] Ferdinand Ries was born in Bonn in 1784, the son of Beethoven's teacher Franz Ries, a man who bad been able to offer help after the death of Beethoven's mother in 1787, Franz Ries, himself the son of a court musician, was a pupil of the... |
REINECKE
Music For Clarinet Olivier Dartevelle (Clarinet) / Jean Schils (Piano) / Pierre Henri Xuereb (Viola) [ Naxos / CD - released 4/Dec/2006 ] Listening to Reinecke's compositions, one is immediately reminded of Schumann, with whom he was friendly, and of Brahms, who exercised a strong influence on him. |
CRUSSELL
Clarinet Concertos Per Billman (Clarinet) / Uppsala Chamber Orchestra / Gerard Korsten [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Nov/2007 ] "Soloist Per Billman knows his clarinet at least as well as did Crusell; he plays beautifully, and receives alert accompaniment from his Swedish colleagues. Delightful." - David Hurwitz, classicstoday.com, December 1999 |
GIOVANNI BOTTESINI
Bottesini: Gran Duo Concertante / Gran Concerto in F sharp minor / etc Thomas Martin (double bass) Jose-Luis Garcia (violin) Emma Johnson (clarinet) / English Chamber Orchestra / Andrew Litton [ Naxos Bottesini Collection Vol 1 / CD - released 27/Apr/2008 ] "At the heart of most of the music by Bottesini which I have heard, there is an essential simplicity, a kind of directness of feeling, a sense of social conversation, which while it may not make for music of great profundity certainly led Bottesini... |