Kuhlau / Copenhagen Piano Quartet - Piano Quartets Nos. 1 & 2 - SUPER-AUDIO CD [Super Audio CD (SACD)]

The prizewinning Copenhagen Piano Quartet presents works by composers cosmopolitan and conservative, but each brimming with charm. German-born Friedrich Kuhlau was a leading figure in what posterity has dubbed the Danish Golden Age. From the outset, Kuhlau stated that he intended to write three piano quartets. With this new , Kuhlau's complete piano quartets are available in recordings by the young and rising Copenhagen Piano Quartet. Kuhlau declared his Piano Quartet No. 3 'my best to date,' speaking of a large-scale work of drama offset by grace and highlighting the composer's contrapuntal gift. Otto Malling was a Danish composer and organ player and the pupil of JPE Hartmann and Niels W Gade. In 1903 Malling wrote his one and only piano quartet, which was also his very last chamber work to compose. The work by 'The Danish Saint-Saens,' as he was affectionately called by some of his peers, presents a perfect picture of this master craftsman's clarity and concision while showing tantalizing signs of his sensuality, too.

Julie Driscoll is known for her 1960s versions of Bob Dylan and Rick Danko's InchThis Wheel's on FireInch, and Donovan's InchSeason of the WitchInch, both with Brian Auger and the Trinity. Along with the Trinity, she was featured prominently in the 1969 television special 33? Revolutions per Monkee, singing InchI'm a BelieverInch in a soul style with Micky Dolenz. She and Auger had previously worked in Steampacket, with Long John Baldry and Rod Stewart. InchThis Wheel's on FireInch reached number five in the United Kingdom in June 1968, number 13 in Canada, and Bubbled Under the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States at #106 that August. This compilation from the Seventies is a fantastic introduction to the work of this remarkable woman.

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