“Beethoven and Brahms’s clarinet trios make a superb pair. … The performers on this Delos recording seem…comfortable in Brahms’s crepuscular world. Pianist Arnon Erez gives the triplet figures in the first movement a nervous urgency that offsets the music’s expansive lyricism, while he phrases the dancelike third movement generously. Clarinettist Amitai Vardi floats the long melodic lines of the Adagio with a liquid legato and digs in reedily to the finale’s rustic rhythms. … Sandwiched between the Beethoven and Brahms we have Jan Radzynski’s Concert Duos (2004) for clarinet and cello – five brief, playfully melodic movements, including a polonaise and a waltz. The Vardis, père et fils, play it with charming panache.”
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