Release Date: 01 May 2012
Label: Hyperion Records Ltd
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 034571179230
Genres: Classical Chamber Music
Description
Among Schumann’s inspired late chamber works is a collection of music for more unusual instruments, composed in a concentrated flurry of creativity between 1849 and 1853 and written specifically for particular players, and it is to these exquisite short works that the world-famous Nash Ensemble turns its impeccable collective musicianship.
While Schumann modelled his music specifically to the timbres of the instruments he wrote for—piano, violin, horn, clarinet and oboe—he also arranged these pieces for alternative instruments with an eye to maximizing sales. Here, however, the soloists from The Nash Ensemble present the works in their original scoring in what are bound to be definitive performances—the delicious Fantasiestucke for clarinet, and the fiery and lyrical Marchenbilder, which feature star British viola player Lawrence Power. Other delights include the Adagio and Allegro for horn, a brilliant showpiece, the Violin Sonata No 1, Drei Romanzen for oboe and piano and the Marchenerzahlungen for clarinet, viola and piano.
Tracklisting
The Gesualdo Six / Owain Park
Steven Osborne
Stephen Hough, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Sakari Oramo
Steven Isserlis, Philharmonia Orchestra / Paavo Jarvi
Stephen Hough; The Halle; Mark Elder
Nicky Spence; Julius Drake
The Orlando Consort
Alina Ibragimova, Cedric Tiberghien
The Nash Ensemble
The Nash Ensemble
The Nash Ensemble
The Nash Ensemble
The Nash Ensemble
The Nash Ensemble
The Nash Ensemble
The Nash Ensemble
