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[Publius]

During the years that the teenaged Jo Brahms had barnstormed through German-speaking Europe as straight man pianist to Hungarian violinist Eduard Remenyi, he had performed professionally at the piano while Ed hot-dogged it on stage with the violin. That was the essence of the “Ed and Jo Show”, and Jo was absolutely sick of “gypsy violin” by the time he and Ed called it quits. As a result, Brahms never wrote a passage for gypsy violin in his serious works, except for the finale of the Violin Concerto he wrote for his old crony Joseph Joachim.

But the idea of gypsy writing was a part of Brahms’ music, and he moved it to different instruments. In his Quartet for Piano and Strings in G minor, Op. 25, he wrote a cadenza for gypsy piano. In his String Quintet in G, Op. 111, he wrote a passage for gypsy viola. In this Quintet for Clarinet and Strings in B minor, Op. 115, he writes for gypsy clarinet.

The slow movement. marked adagio in ternary (A-B-A) format, contains some of the most emotional writing of the piece. It starts quietly and pensively in B Major, but at 3:30 the clarinet plays a “gypsy violin” passage of utter anguish as the cental section. At 7:17 the opening section repeats in re-composed form. At 10:00, the coda resolves the movement with a sense of peaceful resignation.

Brahms: Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115, second movement