Release Date: 15 May 2020
Label: TYXart
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 4250702801405
Genres: Classical Chamber Music
Description
Hans Gal's daughter Eva Fox-Gal writes of this recording:
"My warmest thanks go to Sabrina Frey and Bernhard Parz for this first recording of all of Hans Gál's works for solo recorder, both with piano and for unaccompanied recorder. It is particularly moving for me to hear his very last compositions: Four Bagatelles and Sonatina, composed in 1983, and finally Moment Musical from December '86, when he was 96 years old, less than a year before his death.
For many years before the composition of these works Hans had repeatedly declared that his "workshop was closed". He regarded the two quintets from 1977, his Clarinet Quintet and his String Quintet, as the conclusion of his life's work. And then in 1983 the composer succumbed to persuasion yet again, this time with a solo instrument that has no possibility for harmony or counterpoint, and must therefore rely solely on melody and rhythm, quite apart from its inherently smaller range than string instruments or Piano.
Gal's biographer, Wilhelm Waldstein, quotes him as joking: "I was 40 before I had learnt to write for 3 voices, 60 before I learnt to write for two. He might have added: "and I was 90 before I had learnt to write for a single voice."
All three of the works with keyboard on this recording exemplify his mastery in part-writing, which was for him the essence of chamber music."
Tracklisting
Alexandra Sostmann
Pi-Chin Chien; Bernhard Parz
Martin Ostertag/Oliver Triendl
Bernhard Parz
Ofra Yitzhaki
Anna-Lena Elbert, Evangelina Mascardi, Angelique Mauillon, Friederike Heumann
Anastasia Zorina
Graham F. Valentine & Ensemble
Karolos
The Counterpoints
Narratio Quartet
Danbi Um; Juho Pohjonen
Engegard Quartet, NyNorsk Messingkvintett
Flute Alors
Louise Bessette
Jonas Batstrand, Jorn Fossheim
