Summary: "Leopold Wlach Plays Brahms" In January 1891 Johannes Brahms made a trip to Meiningen for an arts festival and was captivated by performances of the Weber Clarinet Concerto No. 1 and the Mozart Clarinet Quintet. The solo clarinetist was Richard Mühlfeld, and Brahms began a fond friendship with the man whose playing he so admired. The beautiful tone of the instrument inspired him to begin composing again less than a year after he retired. The fruits of their friendship were four remarkable additions to the still modest clarinet repertoire of that time - three of them featured here. More at our archive page @ https://archive.org/details/09ClarinetTrioInAMinorOp.114 [First time on our podcasting channel]
