Clarinet Quintet (2004)
(for clarinet and strings)

I started composing the Clarinet Quintet in spring 2004. This season marked by big changes from dark to light, slumber to  frantic activity to some extent also left  ​​its mark in the music.

The focus of the one-movement work is gracefully flowing chamber music events where different materials with different characters are presented, developed and changed. Under the various musical flows a shadow of the classical sonata form is present. It should be added that it is mainly the case of a reference to a sonata form. The exposition and the development of the musical material is followed, for example, not by an exact replay of the exposition. The replay is rather a return to the original materials which then again continues to evolve. The Clarinet Quintet was commissioned by Nauvo Chamber Music Days.

Sebastian Fagerlund