The genesis of this album of Ensemble Ventus Iucundus with quartets by Georg Philipp Telemann is due to the idea and initiative of Reinhard Czasch, flutist and teacher for transverse flute and historically informed performance at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna. The great variety of instruments in these quartets, ranging from instruments like transverse flute, recorder or violin to bassoon, oboe and basso continuo shows the proficiency of Telemanns writing, setting up different instruments in a way that their individual tonal characteristics are portrayed to the utmost extent – possibly due to his own skill of playing ten instruments himself, including trombone and French horn. The beauty of Telemanns oeuvre lying herein is supported splendidly by the historic instruments of the Ensemble Ventus Iucundus.

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The string quartets by Leos Janacek can without any doubt be counted among the highlights of chamber music works of the period between the two World Wars. His first quartet from 1923 titled "Kreutzer Sonata" refers to the eponymous novella by Leo Tolstoy, a story about adultery and murder of jealousy, quickened by the power of music, and an expression of Tolstoy's deeply Christian and anarchistic understanding of sociology. "Intimate letters", Janaceks second string quartet composed in 1928, documents his discontent with his own conjugal life, depicting his long-term platonic affection for the likewise married Kamila St�sslova, with whom he exchanged more than 700 love letters. The Carinthian ensemble Acies Quartet presents yet another album of furious brilliance paired with their unmatched emotional profundity.

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On this album Austrian-born pianist Christiane Karajeva, who besides pursuing an international solo and chamber music career has been teaching at the University of Music and dramatic Arts Vienna for more than thirty years, presents works by Alexander Skrjabin and Franz Schubert. The Preludes Op. 11 by Skrjabin stand in the tradition of the ones by Frederic Chopin. Similarly, Skrjabin drafts his 24 compact piano pieces as a tour through all musical keys. The Sonata G major Op. 78 D 894 by Franz Schubert came to be his last piano sonata which has been published during his lifetime. It captivates the listener with atmospheres which can be accurately described by antonyms and terms like movement and calmness, joy and despair, solitude, aspiration and solace.

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