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Kempff: Chamber Music
Brilliant Classics

Kempff: Chamber Music

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Details

Composer
KEMPFF, WILHELM
Artist
QUARTETTO RARO
Format
CD
Label
Brilliant Classics
Released
Oct 05, 2018
Catalog #
BRI95629
UPC
5028421956299

About

The pianist Wilhelm Kempff (1895-1991) belonged to that tradition of German musicians - notably including conductors such as Furtwangler, Klemperer and Walter - for whom composition hardly less essential a component of their musical personalities than performing, even if it was an activity they largely undertook privately. Working day to day with imperishable masterworks by Bach, Beethoven and Brahms, they did not expect to meet such standards, yet their own creative voices required an outlet through more than recreation of others. Left cold by the musical innovations and developments of their own time in the work of Schoenberg and Stravinsky, they wrote in a heightened Romantic idiom, and in genres - especially song and chamber music - which lay separately from their own professional activity as performers. Both chamber works presented here date from Kempff's youth. The Piano Trio was composed in 1911, when Kempff was 16, and bears a clear Brahmsian influence in thematic conduct and emotional landscape, through the guidance of Kempff's teacher Robert Kahn, who had himself been a student of Brahms. The Quartet is scored for the more unusual combination of flute, violin, cello and piano. It dates from 1920, and was composed on the island of Capri during a period of recuperation from a serious illness which had laid him low during a concert tour of Sweden. Thus the second movement is based on a Swedish folk theme and the finale ends with a whirlin Tarantella di Taormina, in the tradition exemplified by Mendelssohn's 'Italian' Symphony of German musicians letting Italian sunshine into their work. The Quartet is led by the flautist Ginevra Petrucci. Now based in the US, Petrucci has made several well-received recordings for Brilliant Classics, among them Romantic-era concertos by Briccialdi and a 'winning' (MusicWeb International) album of chamber music by the Polish-US immigrant Robert Muczynski.

Tracklist 8 tracks

  1. 1 I. Andante - Allegro 06:42
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Andante - Allegro
    Duration
    06:42
    Composer
    Wilhelm Kempff
    Ensemble
    Quartetto Raro
  2. 2 II. Adagio con melancolia, semplice 10:41
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Adagio con melancolia, semplice
    Duration
    10:41
    Composer
    Wilhelm Kempff
    Ensemble
    Quartetto Raro
  3. 3 III. Menuet: Allegretto 04:36
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Menuet: Allegretto
    Duration
    04:36
    Composer
    Wilhelm Kempff
    Ensemble
    Quartetto Raro
  4. 4 IV. Introduzione e finale: Andante molto sostenuto e mesto - Molto vivace 10:21
    Track
    4
    Title
    IV. Introduzione e finale: Andante molto sostenuto e mesto - Molto vivace
    Duration
    10:21
    Composer
    Wilhelm Kempff
    Ensemble
    Quartetto Raro
  5. 5 I. Andante 06:32
    Track
    5
    Title
    I. Andante
    Duration
    06:32
    Composer
    Wilhelm Kempff
    Performer
    Lorenzo Fabiani, Francesco Sorrentino, Giovanni Auletta
  6. 6 II. Presto 06:32
    Track
    6
    Title
    II. Presto
    Duration
    06:32
    Composer
    Wilhelm Kempff
    Performer
    Lorenzo Fabiani, Francesco Sorrentino, Giovanni Auletta
  7. 7 III. Moderato 06:27
    Track
    7
    Title
    III. Moderato
    Duration
    06:27
    Composer
    Wilhelm Kempff
    Performer
    Lorenzo Fabiani, Francesco Sorrentino, Giovanni Auletta
  8. 8 IV. Vivace 07:20
    Track
    8
    Title
    IV. Vivace
    Duration
    07:20
    Composer
    Wilhelm Kempff
    Performer
    Lorenzo Fabiani, Francesco Sorrentino, Giovanni Auletta