COMPOSERS: Beethoven,Mozart
LABELS: Eloquence
WORKS: Mozart: Clarinet Quintet; Clarinet Trio; Cassation in B flat; Quintet for Piano and Winds; Beethoven Quintet for Piano and Winds
PERFORMER: Alfred Boskovsky (clarinet), Walter Panhofer (piano); Vienna Octet
CATALOGUE NO: 480 2378
This release is something of a mixed bag. Alfred Boskovsky’s warm-toned clarinet is a joy in Mozart’s Quintet, but the pianist Walter Panhofer is too often disappointingly heavy-handed. Jeremy Siepmann