Viotta Ensemble - Van Bree, Rontgen & Coenen: Dutch Chamber Music - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Album Tracks 1. Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34A Allegro Non Troppo 2. Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34A Andante, Un Poco Adagio 3. Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34A Scherzo Allegro 4. Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34A Finale Poco Sostenuto-Allegro Non Troppo 5. String Quintet in D Major Allegro Ma Non Troppo - Wie Die Herrn 'Professoren' Componirt Haben Wolten 6. String Quintet in D Major Scherzo Vivo - Jugendlicher Übermuth 7. String Quintet in D Major Adagio Con Molto Sentimento - Sehnsucht Nach Dem Vaterlande 8. String Quintet in D Major Finale Presto - Auf Dem Lande

Hindemith Chamber Music, Composer Paul Hindemith, Artist Valerius Ensemble, 1 CD, Paul Hindemith, considered the foremost German composer of his generation, believed in a strong link between music and social needs, and regarded the composer as a craftsman; someone who could provide for those needs. His chamber music is renowned for being unconventional and eclectic; the composer often experimented with a variety of styles and combinations of instruments. The Trio Op.47 uses the heckelphone, a baritone oboe used in several of the works of Richard Strauss. Op.47 is particularly notable for the atmospheric Arioso for this rare instrument. Unusual instrumentation is also found in the Clarinet Quintet, thanks to the appearance of the E flat clarinet in the central movement, leading the ensemble through a series of waltzes and a fugue of considerable length. The Kleinerkammermusik Op.24 No.2 is one of the composer's best-loved works, showcasing his humorous side through the use of playful dissonance. Our collection ends with the lyrical beauty of his famous Sonata for Trumpet and Piano. The Valerius Ensemble enjoys a successful calendar of performances in concert halls and for radio and television, having toured throughout the Netherlands, Spain and Brazil. With a special interest in contemporary music, the ensemble has had several works written especially for it, by composers such as Carlos Míchans and Leo Samama. In celebration of the Hindemith-year 2013 (50 years after his death in 1963) this recording presents a generous selection of his chamber music output. Written for a wide variety of instruments (heckelphone, flute, horn, clarinet, oboe, trumpet, violin, viola, piano) it represents Hindemith's eclectic, witty and vibrant style, in which neo-classical, expressionistic and jazzy elements fuse together in a very personal way. High caliber performances by Netherland

The Milanese composer Riccardo Malipiero was born in Milan in 1914 and took lessons with his uncle, Gian Francesco Malipiero in the late 30s. Malipiero disowned all that he wrote up until 1938 and saved only a small amount of that written before 1945 the surviving early pieces show the influence of his uncle's teaching and the neo-classicism of Casella and Stravinsky. However, influenced by Luigi Dallapiccola, he came to embrace a personal, lyrical language of 12-tone composition which ultimately traces it's roots back to the music of Berg. The four-movement Violin Sonata from 1956 makes an ideal introduction to Riccardo Malipiero's music, with a nervous, waltz-like Scherzo and a frozen slow movement leading into the finale's extensive violin cadenza, beautifully written for the instrument and played here by Rebecca Raimondi with burning conviction as well as ferocious accuracy (she included the sonata within her Master's recital at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, from which she graduated in 2017). At her graduation recital she was accompanied by Alessandro Viale, and together with the other members of the Rest Ensemble they have given concerts of Malipiero's music in both the UK and Italy, lending to these studio recordings the ring of intimacy and impassioned authenticity that is rare in recordings of unfamiliar modernist music. The Piano Trio of 1969 sets a tougher challenge to both performers and listeners, more angular and explosive, yet still imbued with a strain of wit and grace that runs through his output. Album Tracks 1. Sonata (1956) for Violin and Piano 2. Ciaccona Di Davide (1970) for Viola and Piano 3. Mosaico II (Hommage to Rodolfo Lipizer) (1987) for Violin Solo 4. Trio (1968) for Piano, Violin and Cello