Release Date: 09 January 2007
Label: Marco Polo
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 636943531624
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: SPOHR String Quartets Nos. 33, 35, Potpourri
Description
A great violinist in his own right, Louis Spohr was accepted during his lifetime as one of the most important violinist-composers of early German Romanticism. His quartets, which span more than fifty years of his creative career, combine technical brilliance with loftier musical aims. Written at a particularly trying and eventful time in Spohr's life, 'No. 33' includes an intensely felt 'Adagio molto', one of the finest slow movements in the whole of his output. 'No. 35' realised Spohr's aim to compose a quartet which returned to the classical ideals of Haydn and Mozart, while retaining many features of his own individual style. The 'Potpourri in G major' was the twenty-year-old composer's first work for string quartet, written when Spohr was just setting out to make his name as a violin virtuoso.
Tracklisting
Walter Hofbauer; Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice ; Marek Stilec
SLOVAK STATE PO:POLLACK
Nuremberg Phil Chor/Kvso
Danubius Quartet
Walter:Budapest Strauss Symp O
Various Artists
New Budapest Quartet:Prunyi
Duarte:Slovak Radio Symphony
