Release Date: 01 September 2010
Label: Hyperion Records Ltd
Packaging Type: Box Set
No of Units: 3
Barcode: 034571178615
Genres: Classical Chamber Music
Description
The relatively novel instrumental combination which Mozart used for his string quintets (employing two violas) seems to have been inspired by a work by his friend and colleague Michael Haydn. Throughout his life Mozart loved the dusky sonority of the viola, always his instrument of choice when he played chamber music with friends. Beyond that, prompted by Michael Haydn’s charming, lightweight Notturno, he was evidently eager to explore a medium that enabled him to indulge his fondness for dark, saturated textures and rich inner-part writing.
The complete String Quintets is a enchanting body of chamber music, recorded here in a 3-disc set by the peerless Nash Ensemble.
Tracklisting
Mishka Rushdie Momen
The Gesualdo Six / Owain Park
Takacs Quartet
Simon Callaghan, Sinfonieorchester St Gallen
Cinquecento
Andrey Gugnin
El Leon de Oro / Peter Phillips
Piers Lane
The Nash Ensemble
The Nash Ensemble
The Nash Ensemble
The Nash Ensemble
The Nash Ensemble
The Nash Ensemble
The Nash Ensemble
The Nash Ensemble
