The Phoenix Ensemble is a mixed instrument chamber music group based in New York City. It was founded in 1991 with goals to inspire a new and diverse audience for classical music through live performances, recordings, and innovative community residencies. Through supporters such as the National Endowment for the Arts, it has been in residence at a wide range of venues, including NYC’s Greenwich House, the Aaron Copland School of Music, and the 92nd Street Y. The group also encourages the creation of new works, and sheds light on important unexplored music of our time. The Phoenix Ensemble’s previous recordings have received worldwide praise and include notable new and contemporary works, including the world premiere of Milton Babbitt’s Clarinet Quintet, and the music of Jonathan Dawe, Morton Feldman, Arnold Schoenberg, and Karlheinz Stockhausen.

Albums

Clarinet Quintets

Release Date: November 9, 2018
Catalog Number: NV6193
20th Century
Romantic
Chamber
Clarinet
Flute
Violin
The Phoenix Ensemble’s latest album JOHANNES BRAHMS / ELLIOTT CARTER: CLARINET QUINTETS is, of course, masterful. The Phoenix Ensemble now looks back on almost three decades of being a fixture in the national chamber music scene, focusing on performances and recordings of 20th- and 21st-century music. Indeed, it may be this particular specialization in complex musical structures that allows the musicians to explore Brahms' late quintet with the previously unheard thoroughness and careful reconnaissance displayed on this album.