by admin | Mar 20, 2021 | Uncategorized
Piano and Wind Quartet Beethoven, the ultimate master of the theme and variation form, finishes his youthful op.11 trio with a set of variations on an air taken from a popular opera of the day, whilst Camille Saint-Saëns takes a Danish folk song as the basis for the...
by admin | Mar 20, 2021 | Uncategorized
Piano and Wind Quintet Ludwig Thuille and Richard Strauss met as young music students at the ages of 16 and 11 respectively, and remained lifelong friends until Thuille’s death in 1907. Largely forgotten, his sextet for winds and piano is a masterpiece of the...
by admin | Mar 20, 2021 | Uncategorized
Wind Sextet ‘Mladi’- meaning ‘Youth’- was written in the fertile last decade of Janacek’s long life, and opens with the theme ‘Mládí, zlaté mládí!’ (‘Youth, golden youth!’) His hugely talented student, Pavel Haas, in cruel contrast, had his life...
by admin | Mar 16, 2021 | Uncategorized
Wind Quintet Carl Nielsen’s Wind Quintet combines some of the most glorious music written for winds with an affectionate portrait of the musicians he was writing for. Observing their rehearsals, he put into musical form the suave character of the oboist, the nobility...
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