Auner Quartett - Versinkende Sonne - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

In 2010, Dierks Bentley released his most artistically daring project to date. Up On The Ridge is a powerful, beautiful acoustic album steeped in the bluegrass and roots music that moved Dierks to be a country musician in the first place. Besides the five tracks cowritten by Dierks himself, the songs come from such varied sources as Bob Dylan, Buddy & Julie Miller, U2 and Kris Kristofferson, who provides guest vocals along with Alison Krauss, Vince Gill, Miranda Lambert, Chris Stapleton, and more. 10th Anniversary Edition Orange LP is available exclusively for RSD Black Friday 2023.

Bruno Walter is probably still known today, well over 50 years after his death, to all music lovers as a great conductor. He came to public attention as a composer mainly in his early Viennese years (1901-1912). In 1903 the famous Rosé Quartet played his String Quartet in D major, and it also took on (with the composer at the piano) the Piano Quintet in F-sharp minor in 1905. Until recently, only movements Nos. 2, 3, and 4 of the quartet survived in Walter's estate. But in the course of the present production, the question of the 1st movement arose, and indeed a copy of the entire composition was found in the music collection of the Austrian National Library, which could now be recorded in it's entirety by the Aron Quartet! His Piano Quintet was such a great success at the time that the Inchstar criticInch of the Wiener Zeitung, Robert Hirschfeld, gave the work the following praise InchIt is rich in beautiful and deep, peculiar thoughts, passionate in the corner movements, the slow movement, a confession of the soul, flowing from true, heartfelt feelings, is certainly among the most significant that we have encountered in modern chamber music.Inch

If a chamber music ensemble can stand together in the same lineup for 25 years, it must be doing something right. The Faure Quartett can be assumed to be doing so As one of the world's leading piano quartets, the four musicians are at the zenith of chamber music, touring the world's most important venues and breaking down musical boundaries with their recordings. Their Pop Songs album was followed by Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition and Rachmaninov's etudes-Tableaux in 2018, which have never been heard so rousingly before. On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of it's foundation, the quartet turns it's attention to a composer who is at the same time both long overdue and right now perfectly fit to be recorded properly Gabriel Faure. The Faure Quartet has fond memories of these phases of self-exploration and laying the foundations of a piece. The quartet was able to afford the luxury of independent maturity and managed to transform the apparent shortcoming of such a fixed instrumentation into a quality. It is not a trio that treats itself to a pianist, neither is it a string quartet that gives one violin a temporary leave of absence, and nor is it a piano soloist who enhances inherent keyboard timbres by augmenting these with a few extra string players. It remains an ensemble that takes itself seriously in it's particularity and benefits from the qualities of four characters who can stand up to each other even over long stretches of time. And it is a team that does not see itself as too superior not to practice the same thing over and over again until a point is reached at which an invisible boundary is crossed, one that leads from mere interpretation to actual embodiment.