Farrenc & Saint-Saens - Romatic Dreams: Piano Quintets
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Label: ABC Classics
Cat No: ABC4819887
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 9th October 2020
Contents
Artists
IronwoodAbout
These wonderful piano quintets provide contrasting glimpses of the rapidly changing tastes of mid-19th-century Paris, from the Schubertian Classicism in Farrenc’s piece to Saint-Saëns’s incredible work that seems to move from the Baroque to Blondie (yes, really!) via cabaret and the shimmering sounds of early Hollywood.
Ironwood’s novel interpretation of these works reflects the ensemble’s research into historical performance practices, informed by very early acoustic, electrical and piano roll recordings – including some by Saint-Saëns himself – and by contemporaneous written texts by French and Belgian musicians.
Through this research, coupled with the sounds of gut-strung stringed instruments and an original Érard concert grand piano from 1869, this recording reimagines the expressive sound world that these composers envisaged for their sumptuous music.
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