Grandes quintetos, Vol. 2

This second volume is an excellent selection of early romantic chamber music for clarinet written to show musicians skills. The recuperation of Baermann works presents a virtuous clarinetist, famous at the beginnings of the 19th century when the clarinet was consolidated as instrument in terms of register, tuning and flexibility. Krommer wrote brilliant music pushing the instrument to its limits, and the cd contains his refined and dramatic only quintet for clarinet. The quintet by von Weber was dedicated to his good friend Baermann. Beautifully performed by clarinetist Josep Fuster, he is, as usual, accompanied by the Glinka BCN quartet.