Gliere & Shostakovich - String Octets; Hahn - Piano Quintet
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Label: C-AVI
Cat No: AVI8553102
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 11th October 2019
Contents
Works
String Octet in D major, op.5Piano Quintet in F sharp minor
Pieces (2) for string octet, op.11
Artists
Byol Kang (violin)Florian Donderer (violin)
Yura Lee (violin)
Gergana Gergova (violin)
Tatjana Masurenko (viola)
Alban Gerhardt (cello)
Tanja Tetzlaff (cello)
Hanna Weinmeister (viola)
Timothy Ridout (viola)
Artur Pizarro (piano)
Elisabeth Kufferath (violin)
Gustav Rivinius (cello)
Anna Reszniak (violin)
Works
String Octet in D major, op.5Piano Quintet in F sharp minor
Pieces (2) for string octet, op.11
Artists
Byol Kang (violin)Florian Donderer (violin)
Yura Lee (violin)
Gergana Gergova (violin)
Tatjana Masurenko (viola)
Alban Gerhardt (cello)
Tanja Tetzlaff (cello)
Hanna Weinmeister (viola)
Timothy Ridout (viola)
Artur Pizarro (piano)
Elisabeth Kufferath (violin)
Gustav Rivinius (cello)
Anna Reszniak (violin)
About
Of all the major Russian composers, Reinhold Glière is one of the least well known in the West. His life spanned a vast period from the Czar’s reign to Soviet dictatorship, and he made it through the Stalin era relatively intact by mostly avoiding conflict without losing face. Such dilemmas were to haunt the lives of Glière’s pupil Prokofiev, and especially that of his colleague Shostakovich, 30 years younger, but they were not yet current in 1900, when 20-year-old Glière, still a student, injected all of his youthful verve into composing his String Octet in D major, op.5. The work soon gained immense popularity in Russia, where, still today, Glière’s Octet is sometimes even held in higher esteem than the likewise youthful and fresh String Octet by Mendelssohn.
Whereas Shostakovich’s well-known Eighth String Quartet and Second Piano Trio both bear the traces of inner anguish in the face of global and personal tragedies, the Two Pieces for String Octet, op.11, let us look back upon the beginning of an outstanding musical career that was nevertheless overshadowed by harsh difficulties. These two pieces with the headings Prelude and Scherzo are from the period when Shostakovich was still a student in Saint Petersburg.
Reynaldo Hahn was a fellow student of Maurice Ravel at Paris Conservatoire. He was born in Caracas, to where his father, a Hamburg businessman, had moved. His mother was from Venezuela. Hahn studied composition with several professors including opera composer Jules Massenet. He was in close contact with the Paris art scene and later became a close friend – intermittently also the companion – of author Marcel Proust. Reynaldo Hahn gained considerable renown with his song cycles, operettas, and ballets. His Piano Quintet in F sharp minor (1922) is a rhapsodic work in the lineage of French Late Romanticism.
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