Composer: Hans Gál
Performer: Ensemble Burletta
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0377
Release: 2016
Size: 637 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Clarinet Quintet, Op. 107
01. I. Allegro comodo
02. II. Lento – Quasi allegretto
03. III. Poco adagio – Allegro molto
Trio for Clarinet, Violin & Piano, Op. 97
04. I. Moderato assai
05. II. Andantino capriccioso
06. III. Tema con variazioni
Serenade for Clarinet, Violin & Cello, Op. 93
07. I. Cantabile
08. II. Burletta
09. III. Intermezzo
10. IV. Giocoso
Like Brahms and Reger, Hans Gál (1890–1987) expressed some of his last musical thoughts in the form of a Clarinet Quintet, this one written when its composer was 87 years old. But the earlier works here – the Serenade written in Vienna between Gál’s expulsion from Nazi Germany and his flight after the Anschluss, and the Trio, composed in his new home of Edinburgh – reveal that its elegiac, autumnal lyricism was his natural mode of expression. In these three scores, indeed, he produced some of the loveliest music in the clarinet repertoire.