Clarinet Quintet in B minor, op. 115
HEINRICH BAERMANN
Wagner's Adagio for Clarinet and Strings
members of the Wiener Oktett
Alfred Boskovsky clarinet
Anton Fietz & Philipp Matheis violins
Gunther Breitenbach viola
Nikolaus Hübner violoncello
Johann Krump double-bass
Wagner's Adagio for Clarinet and Strings is in fact the middle movement of Heinrich Baermann's Third Clarinet Quintet, op. 23, published in 1821. The history of its misattribution dates back to 1922, when a manuscript copy of the piece was discovered by the Wagner expert, Michael Balling, who published it in 1926 as an early work of Wagner's. The correct attribution was made public in 1964by Hans-Georg Bach.