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Penderecki: Sextet for Clarinet, Horn, Violin, Viola, Cello, and Piano; Clarinet Quartet; Three Miniatures for Clarinet and Piano; Divertimento for Solo Cello; Prelude for Solo Clarinet Michel Lethiec, clarinet/Regis Pasquier, violin/Bruno Pasquier, viola/Arto Noras, cello/Markus Maskuniitty, French horn/Juhani Lagerspetz, piano (Naxos 8.557052)
In past issues I have reviewed and recommended several Naxos recordings of the orchestral music of Polish composer Krzystof Penderecki, and now Naxos has released a recording of some of his chamber music. The Sextet sounds something like a miniature Mahler symphony--not imitatively, but in the same musical spirit, and sounding somehow modernized and compressed. The Clarinet Quartet is ...