Recital at the Albion College
Today Class&Jazz’s violinist Oleg Bezuglov is performing J. Brahms’s Clarinet Quintet at the Albion College in collaboration with Sarah Manasreh (clarinet), Ying-Li Pan (violin), Howard Jones (viola) and Daniel Trussel (cello). The project’s idea to perform one of the most magnificent pieces written by Brahms in his late creative period belongs to Albion College’s faculty professor Sarah Manasreh, who hes enjoyed a diverse teaching and performing career in the United States and Europe.
Johannes Brahms’s Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115 was written in 1891 for the clarinettist Richard Mühlfeld. It is scored for a clarinet in A with a string quartet. It has a duration of approximately thirty-five minutes. At the time Brahms started composing his Clarinet Quintet, only a few works had been composed for this type of ensemble. Examples of clarinet quintets include those by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Anton Reicha, Carl Maria von Weber, Franz Krommer, Alexander Glazunov, Heinrich Baermann, and Thomas Täglichsbeck. Brahms modeled his composition after Mozart’s.
In addition to this performance the group has plans to record Brahms’s piece in the near future and continue collaboration for the future concert projects.
