Classical Music

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Classical Music

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Raimund Lissy, violinist with the Vienna Philharmonic, has been supporting the rediscovered work of Viennese composer and violinist Joseph Mayseder (1798-1863) for years. He is already presenting his fourth album with works by the Biedermeier composer, who himself had worked with Haydn, Beethoven and Schubert. Mayseder gained great fame in his lifetime, and bought a city house in Vienna for himself and his son-in-law, a jeweler whose descendants still are active there today. His works, mostly written for chamber music with violin participation, combine virtuosity with Viennese charm. In this volume, the Viennese Mayseder ensemble (with Lissy as 1st violinist) plays the string quartet No. 2 and the string quintet No. 2.

The young international Pacific Quartet Vienna has chosen as repertoire focus works of the First and Second Viennese Schools. Its second album (after “Becoming – Being – Passing Away”) presents “Sounds from Pannonia”, with Haydn 's String Quartet Op. 54/2, the second from the group of “Tost–Quartets”, Bartok’ s 2nd String Quartet (in which the composer used the impressions of his four-year research on Pannonian songs and dances during the First World War) and Brahms’s Quartet Op. 51/2 (as can be observed in many of his works, no composer of musical history was so obsessively under the spell of the Pannonian idiom like Brahms) are representative of the music of the landscape between Vienna, Burgenland, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia and parts of Slovakia.

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This new release pulls from the plentiful collection of dances and waltzes by Franz Schubert. The music included in this album was not originally composed for a large audience, rather for a small circle of friends, bringing an intimate quality to the music. Viennese-born pianist Paul Badura-Skoda performs these dances beautifully, and has written the liner notes included in the album.

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