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Strauss: Piano Quartet In C Major, Op. 13 etc. / Blumenthal, Dinglinger, Nys, Vay
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Strauss: Piano Quartet In C Major, Op. 13 etc. / Blumenthal, Dinglinger, Nys, Vay

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Composer
STRAUSS, RICHARD
Artist
Daniel Blumenthal, Doren Dinglinger, Tony Nys, Alexandre Vay
Format
CD
Label
CPO
Released
Nov 02, 2018
Catalog #
555116-2
UPC
761203511624

About

A radically systematic logic stunningly manifested itself quite early in the music of Richard Strauss. He avoided the instrumental genres, was attracted to the tone poem right from the very start, and worked toward the goal of making the opera his central focus. And yet his beginnings lay in chamber music, a fact demonstrated on this release with two examples in new recordings. The Piano Trio No. 2 is lengthier than its predecessor and very ambitious both in its tonal register and execution. The formal norms – sonata form, song form, scherzo, and then another sonata movement – are upheld with completeness and elegance. The piano trio had a long line of tradition going back to Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, but the composer who set standards in the middle of the nineteenth century is particularly clearly recognizable here in a model function: Mendelssohn. Only about seven years passed between this trio and Strauss’s only Piano Quartet, but in 1885 too he was still a very young composer. The quartet displays impressive advances in technique; now Strauss apparently could draw on all the compositional resources then available, and the higher virtuosic demands on the instrumentalists are also quite evident. Strauss attracted the greatest attention with his large-format op. 13 lasting almost forty minutes, a work that even brought him a prize from the Berliner Tonkünstlerverein.

Tracklist 8 tracks

  1. 1 I. Allegro 14:03
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Allegro
    Duration
    14:03
    Composer
    Richard Strauss
    Performer
    Doren Dinglinger, Tony Nys, Alexandre Vay, Daniel Blumenthal
  2. 2 II. Scherzo: Presto 07:14
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Scherzo: Presto
    Duration
    07:14
    Composer
    Richard Strauss
    Performer
    Doren Dinglinger, Tony Nys, Alexandre Vay, Daniel Blumenthal
  3. 3 III. Andante 08:36
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Andante
    Duration
    08:36
    Composer
    Richard Strauss
    Performer
    Doren Dinglinger, Tony Nys, Alexandre Vay, Daniel Blumenthal
  4. 4 IV. Finale: Vivace 10:11
    Track
    4
    Title
    IV. Finale: Vivace
    Duration
    10:11
    Composer
    Richard Strauss
    Performer
    Doren Dinglinger, Tony Nys, Alexandre Vay, Daniel Blumenthal
  5. 5 I. Allegro moderato 07:45
    Track
    5
    Title
    I. Allegro moderato
    Duration
    07:45
    Composer
    Richard Strauss
    Performer
    Doren Dinglinger, Alexandre Vay, Daniel Blumenthal
  6. 6 II. Andante cantabile ma non troppo 06:04
    Track
    6
    Title
    II. Andante cantabile ma non troppo
    Duration
    06:04
    Composer
    Richard Strauss
    Performer
    Doren Dinglinger, Alexandre Vay, Daniel Blumenthal
  7. 7 III. Scherzo: Allegro assai 05:02
    Track
    7
    Title
    III. Scherzo: Allegro assai
    Duration
    05:02
    Composer
    Richard Strauss
    Performer
    Doren Dinglinger, Alexandre Vay, Daniel Blumenthal
  8. 8 IV. Finale: Lento assai - Allegro vivace 08:18
    Track
    8
    Title
    IV. Finale: Lento assai - Allegro vivace
    Duration
    08:18
    Composer
    Richard Strauss
    Performer
    Doren Dinglinger, Alexandre Vay, Daniel Blumenthal