Mendelssohn & Enescu - Octets
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Label: BIS
Cat No: BIS2447
Format: Hybrid SACD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 27th March 2020
Contents
Artists
Gringolts QuartetMeta4
Works
Octet for strings in C major, op.7Octet in E flat major, op.20
Artists
Gringolts QuartetMeta4
About
The second octet on this disc is also a youthful work written at a time of transition, now from Romanticism to Modernism: George Enescu was 19 years old when he completed his Octet in C major in December 1900. The work is concentrated, complex and highly contrapuntal, a sounding illustration of what Enescu elsewhere described in words: ‘I am by nature a polyphonist, not at all an advocate of sequences of pretty chords. I have a horror of anything that stagnates. For me, music is not a state but rather an action…’
Among the small number of works for this instrumental combination, these belong to the very finest, and are here performed by two of today’s leading quartets: the Gringolts Quartet and Meta4 have both made numerous acclaimed recordings in the most diverse repertoire.
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