Like those of his predecessor Franz Josef Haydn, the British folk song settings of Ludwig van Beethoven are an underappreciated corner of his output. Commissioned by Scotsman George Thomson for publication as parlor music, they present a simple, rustic face that hides a deceptively clever and often technically demanding musical texture. Indeed, ...
Edmund Rubbra's 11 symphonies and large-scale choral works are his best-known efforts, but his occasional forays into the concerto genre are also worth noting, though one should explore them with diminished expectations. Violinist Krysia Osostowicz and the Ulster Orchestra, conducted by Takuo Yuasa, present the rather ambitious and cumbersome ...
This 12-disc set does indeed contain all of Brahms' acknowledged chamber works (the original version of the first Piano Trio and the possibly spurious-possibly authentic Fourth Piano Quartet are left out). And although the standard caveats for box sets holds here -- the quality of the performers is mixed and better performances of all the works ...
Between 1997 and 2007, England's Dante Quartet released five discs on three different labels. First, there was a disc called Les Vendredis (The Fridays) for ASV featuring romantic quartet music from nineteenth century Russia. Then there were three discs for Dutton: a disc coupling Lyapunov's Piano Sextet with Grechaninov's String Quartet No. 3 and ...
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