Geoffrey Gaskell wrote: >... I would also be very interested in acquiring any HIP chamber music >by Weber. Has any such been released that is particularly recommendable? The obvious choice would be the clarinet quintet op. 34. There is a very good recording by L'Archibudelli with Charles Neidich on Sony, but that's the only Weber piece - it is combined with Hummel's Quartet in E flat and Reicha's Quintet in B flat. Neidich has recorded the Weber Quintet again with the ensemble Les Adieux on Music Alliance, in this case combined with a quintet by the little known German composer Sigmund von Neukomm. On another Sony CD Charles Neidich plays the Sonata for clarinet and piano op. 48, combined with Mendelssohn's Sonata in E flat and Danzi's Sonata in B flat. Robert Levin is playing the fortepiano. Sony reissues a number of recordings which were released in the 70's and 80's on the SEON label. It is a very cheap series and still very worthwhile. There is a 2 CD-set with songs and chamber music with singers like Carolyn Watkinson, Ian Partridge and Max van Egmond, and Frans Vester (flute), Anner Bijlsma (cello) and Stanley Hoogland (fortepiano). Furthermore there is a CD on Amon Ra with a flute trio and four sonatas for piano and flute, played by Stephen Preston (flute), Jennifer Ward Clarke (cello) and Richard Burnett (fortepiano). That is all I can find right now. Weber is still a somewhat neglected composer. Johan van Veen Utrecht (Netherlands) [log in to unmask]