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Reicha, A.: Wind Quintets
Supraphon

Reicha, A.: Wind Quintets

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Details

Composer
REICHA, ANTONIN
Artist
Belfiato Quintet
Format
CD
Label
Supraphon
Released
Sep 27, 2019
Catalog #
SU4270-2
UPC
099925427023

About

Following their critically acclaimed debut album, the Belfiato Quintet have gone back a century in time, to the "father of the wind quintet" Antonín Rejcha's life was adventurous and turbulent indeed. When he was 10, he ran away from his Prague home, and would live in turn in Bonn, Hamburg and Vienna, before finally settling in Paris. He presented his first symphony at the tender age of 17. Rejcha became a friend of Beethoven's, who played the viola in the same orchestra, he made the acquaintance with Haydn, and his teachers included Salieri. A keen experimenter, he liked to write in quintuple time, was fascinated by Gypsy music with micro-intervals, playing with numbers and chords, polyrhythm, polytonality and counterpoint. Moreover, he was an accomplished theorist and a renowned teacher, also working as a professor at the Conservatoire de Paris. His students included Liszt, Berlioz, Franck and other distinguished composers. Rejcha was the first to write truly masterful wind quintets, making full use of the instruments' timbres and technical potential. Notwithstanding it's being challenging to perform, his music comes across as bright, airy and gracious. The Belfiato Quintet selected three - the most beautiful and most engrossing - of Rejcha's 24 wind quintets, which they have recorded at the acoustically exceptionable Rudolfinum hall in Prague. It would seem that the virtuoso and passionate musicians have found in Rejcha a kindred spirit.

Tracklist 12 tracks

  1. 1 I. Lento - Allegro moderato 07:32
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Lento - Allegro moderato
    Duration
    07:32
    Composer
    Anton Reicha
    Ensemble
    Belfiato Quintet
  2. 2 II. Minuetto: Allegro 04:25
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Minuetto: Allegro
    Duration
    04:25
    Composer
    Anton Reicha
    Ensemble
    Belfiato Quintet
  3. 3 III. Poco andante grazioso 07:43
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Poco andante grazioso
    Duration
    07:43
    Composer
    Anton Reicha
    Ensemble
    Belfiato Quintet
  4. 4 IV. Finale: Allegretto 05:51
    Track
    4
    Title
    IV. Finale: Allegretto
    Duration
    05:51
    Composer
    Anton Reicha
    Ensemble
    Belfiato Quintet
  5. 5 I. Andante - Allegro ma non troppo 08:27
    Track
    5
    Title
    I. Andante - Allegro ma non troppo
    Duration
    08:27
    Composer
    Anton Reicha
    Ensemble
    Belfiato Quintet
  6. 6 II. Andante poco allegretto 04:24
    Track
    6
    Title
    II. Andante poco allegretto
    Duration
    04:24
    Composer
    Anton Reicha
    Ensemble
    Belfiato Quintet
  7. 7 III. Minuetto: Allegro vivo 03:18
    Track
    7
    Title
    III. Minuetto: Allegro vivo
    Duration
    03:18
    Composer
    Anton Reicha
    Ensemble
    Belfiato Quintet
  8. 8 IV. Allegro 04:46
    Track
    8
    Title
    IV. Allegro
    Duration
    04:46
    Composer
    Anton Reicha
    Ensemble
    Belfiato Quintet
  9. 9 I. Lento - Allegro assai 08:32
    Track
    9
    Title
    I. Lento - Allegro assai
    Duration
    08:32
    Composer
    Anton Reicha
    Ensemble
    Belfiato Quintet
  10. 10 II. Adagio 04:16
    Track
    10
    Title
    II. Adagio
    Duration
    04:16
    Composer
    Anton Reicha
    Ensemble
    Belfiato Quintet
  11. 11 III. Minuetto: Allegro vivo 03:35
    Track
    11
    Title
    III. Minuetto: Allegro vivo
    Duration
    03:35
    Composer
    Anton Reicha
    Ensemble
    Belfiato Quintet
  12. 12 IV. Finale: Allegretto 05:09
    Track
    12
    Title
    IV. Finale: Allegretto
    Duration
    05:09
    Composer
    Anton Reicha
    Ensemble
    Belfiato Quintet