Ries - Flute Quartets Op.145 | Naxos 8570330

Ries - Flute Quartets Op.145

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Label: Naxos

Cat No: 8570330

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 1st October 2007

Contents

Artists

John Herrick Littlefield (flute)
Aaron Boyd (violin)
Ah Ling Neu (viola)
Yari Bond (cello)

Works

Ries, Ferdinand

Flute Quartet in A major, op.145 no.3
Flute Quartet in C major, op.145 no.1
Flute Quartet in E minor, op.145 no.2

Artists

John Herrick Littlefield (flute)
Aaron Boyd (violin)
Ah Ling Neu (viola)
Yari Bond (cello)

About

A pupil of Beethoven in Vienna, Ferdinand Ries enjoyed a successful career as a performer and as a composer. After a period in England, he finally retired to his native Rhineland where he wrote his Flute Quartets.

Written in an early Romantic style, the Quartets are notable for their diversity, the first with a Spanish finale, the second more sombre in tone, and the third providing a bright conclusion, as though it were designed to cap an evening of music-making. Quotations or near quotations from works by other composers of the period give the Quartets a humorous and unusual unpredictability.

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