WDR Sinfonieorchester Chamber Players – Bruch: String Quintets & Octet (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:07:37 minutes | 687 MB | Genre: Classical
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Max Bruch was eighty years old when, in 1918, he decided to return to the chamber music genre he had frequented in his early years. Stimulated by the violin virtuoso Willy Hess, he composed two string quintets and an octet, monuments to beauty and harmony, at the end of a tumultuous personal life and in the midst of a western world on the brink of collapse. After an album devoted to Beethoven’s chamber music, the Chamber Players of the WDR Sinfonieorchester now tackle one of the last chapters of German Romantic music, with pieces that constitute Bruch’s swansong.
Tracklist:
01. WDR Sinfonieorchester Chamber Players – Bruch: String Quintet in E-Flat Major, Op. Posth.: I. Andante con moto (03:03)
02. WDR Sinfonieorchester Chamber Players – Bruch: String Quintet in E-Flat Major, Op. Posth.: II. Allegro (03:37)
03. WDR Sinfonieorchester Chamber Players – Bruch: String Quintet in E-Flat Major, Op. Posth.: III. Andante con moto (05:34)
04. WDR Sinfonieorchester Chamber Players – Bruch: String Quintet in E-Flat Major, Op. Posth.: IV. Andante con moto – Allegro ma non troppo vivace (06:34)
05. WDR Sinfonieorchester Chamber Players – Bruch: String Quintet in A Minor, Op. Posth.: I. Allegro (09:56)
06. WDR Sinfonieorchester Chamber Players – Bruch: String Quintet in A Minor, Op. Posth.: II. Allegro molto (03:46)
07. WDR Sinfonieorchester Chamber Players – Bruch: String Quintet in A Minor, Op. Posth.: III. Adagio non troppo (04:07)
08. WDR Sinfonieorchester Chamber Players – Bruch: String Quintet in A Minor, Op. Posth.: IV. Allegro (07:05)
09. WDR Sinfonieorchester Chamber Players – Bruch: String Octet in B-Flat Major, Op. Posth.: I. Allegro moderato (10:33)
10. WDR Sinfonieorchester Chamber Players – Bruch: String Octet in B-Flat Major, Op. Posth.: II. Adagio – Andante con moto di molto (07:14)
11. WDR Sinfonieorchester Chamber Players – Bruch: String Octet in B-Flat Major, Op. Posth.: III. Allegro molto (06:00)
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