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Clarinet Quartet, Op.35

Category Chamber Music > Other Chamber Music
Composed 1984
Duration (approx) 15 minutes
Parts 

Clarinet, violin, viola, cello

Recording(s) Winter Passions
Publisher Faber Music
Commission 

Nash Ensemble with funds from the Arts Council of Great Britain.

First performance 4 July 1984
Venue Wigmore Hall, London
Orchestra / Ensemble Nash Ensemble
Review Desmond Shawe-Taylor, The Sunday Times, July 1984
  

…well made and concisely shaped, with ingeniously combined and superimposed material in the first of its two movements, followed by a brilliant 6/8 scherzo that yields, in its final page, to a poetic reminiscence of the first movement. …very well shaped, with ingeniously combined and superimposed material in the first of its two movements, followed by a brilliant 6/8 scherzo that yields, in its final page, to a poetic reminiscence of the first movement.