Crusell / Beier - Flute Quartets - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

It is our good fortune that Ferdinand Ries bequeathed to posterity six remarkably beautiful Quartets for Flute, Violin, Viola, and Violoncello. These compositions sparkle like gems in the early Romantic chamber literature including the flute. On the present , Vol. 2 of our complete recording, his Quartets in G major WoO 35, 2 and E minor op. 145, 2 as well as his remarkable String Trio in E minor WoO 70, 2 are heard. On the one hand, conventional elements verging on practically Baroque sequential processes stand out in the trio. On the other hand, here we also find innovative musical surprises and full-fledged, motivically organized development sections, above all in the fourth movement. The violin part is very exceptionally demanding. In any event, the young Ries was able to compose a work representing a highly expressive contribution to the not exactly large number of string trios. In the chamber compositions recorded here Ries once again presents himself as a composer who experienced musical classicism firsthand and adapted it but then increasingly pursued his own path and found a unique personal style marking the beginning of a new worldview. Following the of our Vol. 1, Heinz Braun enthusiastically wrote InchI freely concede that over the years I have become a glowing admirer of the Bonn master and have impatiently awaited each new . In the present case too, the wait has been well worth it. The Ardinghello Ensemble with the flutist Karl Kaiser succeeds overall with it's fine sense of sound, supported by Manuel Braun's outstanding sound technique.Inch Album Tracks 1. Quartet for Flute, Violin, Viola & Violoncello G minor, Wo) 35, 2 2. Trio for Violin, Viola & Violoncello E minor, Woo 70, 2 3. Quartet for Flute, Violin, Viola & Violoncello E minor, Woo 145, 2

The cellist-composer Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer (1783-1860), an orchestral musician in Dresden and Leipzig as well as an important soloist and teacher, is best remembered for the music he wrote for his own instrument the studies of his Violoncellschule are still in use today. But the prolific Dotzauer wrote much else, and his generous output of chamber music includes a handful of good-natured quartets for solo wind instruments and strings. They share an elegant late-Classical manner, with echoes of Mozart and Haydn, but their poise and charm can disguise fearsome technical demands and occasional harmonic boldness. The Ensemble Pyramide consists of flute, oboe, violin, viola, cello and harp- here Markus Bronnimann, flute, Barbara Tillman, oboe, Ulrike Jacoby, violin, Muriel Schweizer, viola, and Anita Jehli, cello. In it's concert programmes, the Ensemble enjoys exposing surprising connections in music history by juxtaposing early and new music. Having worked for years in the same formation, it's members have developed an unmistakable ensemble sound and a special stylistic flexibility in the performance of music from the Baroque era to the 21st century. It's special repertoire includes quartets and quintets of the Classical era as well as French chamber music with harp from the first half of the twentieth century. The Ensemble also dedicates it's energy towards the performance of long-forgotten works, and has had it's own concert series in Zurich since 1995. Album Tracks 1. Third Quartet for Flute, Violin, Viola and Cello in E Major, Op. 57 (1822) 2. Quartet for Oboe, Violin, Viola and Cello in F Major, Op. 37 (1815) 3. Quartet for Flute, Violin, Viola and Cello in a Minor, Op. 38 (1816)

Album Tracks 1. Quartet for Flute, Violin, Viola & Violoncello D minor, Woo 35, 1 2. Trio for Violin, Viola and Violoncello E Flat Major Woo 70, 1 3. Quartet for Flute, Violin, Viola and Violoncello