Melos Ensemble (Emanuel Hurwitz, Eli Goren, Kenneth Sillito, Ivor McMahon, Robert Masters, Iona Brown, violins ; Cecil Aronowitz, Patrick Ireland, Kenneth Essex, violas ; Terence Weil, Derek Simpson, Keith Harvey, cellos ; Adrian Beers, double bass ; Richard Adeney, William Bennett, Christopher Hyde-Smith, flutes/piccolos ; Peter Graeme, Sarah Barrington, oboes ; Gervase de Peyer, Keith Puddy, clarinets ; Anthony Jennings, Stephen Trier, bass clarinets ; William Waterhouse, Arthur Wilson, Alfred Flaszinski, trombones ; Osian Ellis, Hilary Wilson, harps ; James Blades, Tristan Fry, Jack Lees, Stephen Whittaker, percussion ; Lamar Crowson, Marcal Gzelle, piano) ; John Carewe, Sir Edward Downes, Larence Foster, conductors ; with Mary Thomas, soprano (last work) ; Rosemary Phillips, contralto (last work) ; Manoug Parikian, violin (Birtwistle piece)
Recorded 1957-1972 London, Abbey Road, No. 1 Studio.
Last work sung in Italian; words by Giacomo Leopardi.
Clarinet quintet / Mozart -- Piano quintet 'Trout' -- Adagio and Rondo concertante / Schubert -- Quintet for piano and wind / Mozart -- Quintet ; Sextet ; Septet / Beethoven -- Octet / Mendelssohn -- Octet / Beethoven -- Octet / Schubert -- Duo no. 1 / Beethoven -- Fantasiestücke, op. 73 ; Märchenzählungen, op. 132 / Schumann -- Clarinet quintet / Brahms -- Clarinet quintet / Reger -- Grand septet / Berwald -- Double quartet no. 1 / Spohr -- Clarinet quintet / Weber -- Wind quintet / Nielsen -- Mládí ; In the mists ; Concertino / Janáček -- Introduction and Allegro / Ravel -- Trio for oboe, bassoon and piano ; Sonata for clarinet and bassoon / Poulenc -- Two divertissements / Françaix -- Suite for violin, clarinet and piano / Milhaud -- Contrasts / Bartók -- Octet ; Variations on a folk tune / Skalkottas -- Trio / Khachaturian -- Overture on Hebrew themes / Prokofiev -- Clarinet trio = Kegelstatt / Mozart -- Octet. Adagio/Allegro / Spohr -- Conversations ; Oboe quintet ; Clarinet quintet / Bliss -- Calendar / Bennett -- Concerto da camera / Crosse -- Tragoedia / Birtwistle -- Leopardi fragments / Maxwell Davies