Minguet Quartett & Jens Peter Maintz
Release Date: 21 October 2022
Label: C-Avi
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 4260085530182
Genres: Classical Chamber Music
Description
A recording of the complete works for chamber music by Walter Braunfels.
Walter Braunfels was a highly influential musician and composer in the time between the two world wars in Germany, specifically in the Cologne region. As Braunfels was half Jewish, he was removed from his academic posts including at the Musikhochschule Koln. His chamber music works for strings are a wide screen reflection of his thoughts and internal constraints during the last period of WWII and the new freedom.
"Analysis obviously cannot seize the essence. […] If my music has meaning, it does not lie in the musical material itself, but beneath it: in the artistic approach and its relationship with my world view." (Walter Braunfels).
Walter Braunfels wrote his first two string quartets in 1944; they were followed after the war by the String Quintet (1946/47), the Third String Quartet (1946/47), and the new Final Movement composed for the latter(1953). All these works meet the highest standards in terms of transparent voice leading, closely knit polyphony, and boldly expanded tonal harmony. In 1933 he was dismissed from all posts, regardless of his merits, because he was half Jewish. Braunfels was restored to his post of director at Cologne Conservatory in 1945. . Braunfels was swimming against the tide: profoundly rooted in the Classical-Romantic tradition, his style was deemed inconvenient in the face of prevalent postmodern tendencies in the first years after the war.
Tracklisting
Katharina Konradi, Catriona Morison, Ammiel Bushakevitz
Antje Weithaas, Denes Varjon
Premysl Vojta, Florence Millet, Ye Wu
Herbert Schuch, WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne
Sandrine Cantoreggi & Sheila Arnold
Nino Gvetadze
Daniel Heide
Antje Weithaas & Denes Varjon
Narratio Quartet
Beau Soir Trio
Martin Rummel, Stefan Stroissnig
Hanspeter Oggier; Marina Vasilyeva
Antje Weithaas, Denes Varjon
Piano Duo Scholtes & Janssens
Matteo Cicchitti, Musica Elegentia
Ensemble Agamemnon, Francois Cardey
