This Chandos album follows the enjoyable practice of offering listeners something fairly familiar with something relatively unfamiliar. The familiar, in this case, are the two highly programmatic string quartets of Leos Janácek. The less familiar works are the string quartets of Szymanowski, whose music is still just coming into its much-deserved ...
Written between 1902 and 1937, these are stylistically diverse works of Albert Roussel, ranging from the Romantic to the Impressionist to the neo-classical. Roussel is always melodically attractive, formally inventive, technically brilliant, and harmonically appealing. In these consistently strong and persuasive performance by a variety of mostly ...
Dutch composer Bart Visman (born 1962) has in common with many of his compatriots of his generation an absolute grasp of contemporary techniques combined with a lively, eclectic inventiveness, a knack for timbral distinctiveness, and a communicative directness that gives his works an immediate appeal. (In addition to his own diverse works, he has ...
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