Hoffmeister’s Magic Flute Vol.1
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Label: Somm
Cat No: SOMMCD0620
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 18th September 2020
Contents
Works
Duetto in G major for flute and violinFlute Quartet in C minor, H5929
Flute Quintet in E fat major, op.3
Flute Trios (3), op.11
Artists
Boris Bizjak (flute)Lana Trotovsek (violin)
Piatti Quartet
Works
Duetto in G major for flute and violinFlute Quartet in C minor, H5929
Flute Quintet in E fat major, op.3
Flute Trios (3), op.11
Artists
Boris Bizjak (flute)Lana Trotovsek (violin)
Piatti Quartet
About
They come together for revelatory performances of six pieces for flute, violin and string quartet elements by Frank Anton Hoffmeister, all receiving their first recordings. Now overshadowed by his illustrious contemporaries, Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven (music by all of whom, including the Diabelli Variations, he published), Hoffmeister was himself a prolific composer in every form.
Although the flute is often placed centre-stage in these six works, all demonstrate Hoffmeister’s eloquently proportioned, life-enhancing and integrated feeling for chamber music.
The two most substantial works here are a taut, dramatically urgent Quartet for flute, violin, viola and cello in C minor, and an E flat major Quintet for flute, violin, two violas and cello of Mozartian mien and mood.
With echoes of Gluck, Mozart and Haydn, two Trios for flute, violin and cello (in B flat major and D major) and a Duetto in G major for flute and violin offer superbly expressive examples of Hoffmeister’s music at its most effusive and engagingly virtuosic.
Hailed in his native Slovenia for his “musicality [and] captivating performance”, London-based Boris Bizjak has won several international flute competitions and is in growing demand around the world. Lana Trotovšek, praised by The Washington Post for her “clean, refined tone with musical sense of phrasing and impeccable intonation”, is also a Professor at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance.
The Piatti Quartet – Nathaniel Anderson-Frank and Michael Trainor (violins), Tetsuumi Nagata (viola), Jessie Ann Richardson (cello) – have gained growing recognition for their “ferociously fine form” (BBC Music) and playing of “absolute authority and conviction” (Gramophone).
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