Hahn: Chamber Music

Room-Music

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Release Date: 01 September 2011

Label: Hyperion Records Ltd

Packaging Type: Jewel Case

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 034571153797

Genres: Classical Chamber Music

Description
It is a sad fact that the reputation and fame of many composers, built up over a lifetime, evaporates on their death bed. Si mes vers avaient des ailes, a short song written when the composer was just thirteen, is the work on which Hahnâs posthumous fame had, until relatively recently, relied, and is included here in the composer's own transcription for cello and piano. Recording catalogues now reveal an ever-growing list of worksâconcertos, symphonic offerings, songs, piano pieces and chamber musicâby this most urbane and charming composer.The C major Violin Sonata of 1926 assuredly leads us into the world of FaurÃ© fifty years earlier, its easy lyricism and textural transparency bearing a kinship with the elder French musicianâs A major Sonata. This melodic suppleness is continued in Soliloque et Forlane, now with viola and piano demonstrating Hahnâs skill in turning out a jaunty tune. The Nocturne and the Romance, both for violin and piano, reveal further an ability to combine passionate intensity with a sense of refined melodic and harmonic delicacy. The Piano Quartet of 1946 adopts a more muscular and impassioned character. Melodic charm and restfulness in the Andante are interrupted by the central passage which sails into troubled and expressive waters and the finale rolls gracefully to its compelling conclusion.
This charming recording is the perfect showcase for Room-Music, a consortium of internationally acclaimed musicians who wish to perform and explore chamber music in a more flexible and innovative form.
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