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Jean Xavier LEFÈVRE (1763-1829)
Clarinet Quintets: No. 1 in E flat major [12:42]; No. 2 in B flat major [12:31];
No. 3 in C major [13:01]; No. 4 in C minor [17:55]
 Eduard Brunner (clarinet); Ana
Chumachenco (violin); Wen-Sinn Yang (cello); Hariolf
Schlichtig (viola)
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Has any disc started with such an emphatic intake of breath?
Brunner swells his lungs for Lefèvre's bubblingly Mozartean
First Clarinet Quartet. The fluency of the playing combines a
poignant
lyricism with a flighty yet genteel fantasy. Certainly if you
like music that straddles the Mozart-Weber divide you will have
to go with this. It is the Mozartean manner that is to the fore
with this Swiss-born and French-speaking composer. Lefèvre,
who may also be familiar from his clarinet concertos, seems happy
to work within a language whose limits were set by Mozart and
developed by Weber. He has a felicitous way with the solo instrument
but does not neglect contrapuntal interest in the parts for the
three wind instruments.
The Fourth Quartet takes on a darker
colouration and a broader emotional range. It is in this work
that Lefèvre casts aside accustomed rules and embraces
a wider emotional ambit and palette - more Beethovenian in contrast
to the simple graces of the earlier works. The tappetty-clicky
sound of the key action is one of the prominent aspects of this
recording. Brunner clearly knows his Lefèvre. He is the
soloist with the Münchner Kammerorchester conducted by Reinhard
Goebel on Tudor 7098 in clarinet concertos 3, 4 and 6.
So there
you have it: Mozartean felicity and one work of Beethovenian
depth.
Rob Barnett
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