{"product_id":"various-romantic-chamber-music-vienna-octet","title":"Romantic Chamber Music (Rimsky-Korsakov, Mendelssohn, Borodin, Berwald, Kreutzer) - Vienna Oktett (2 CDs)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0067\/4660\/3571\/files\/ABOUT_THIS_RECORDING_W._WORLD_2_e41329ea-b9a9-4e85-9c74-e4ca06232094_480x480.png?v=1597936917\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis recording forms part of a series of 10 reissues celebrating the glorious Decca recordings from the 1950s-1970s of the Wiener Oktett (Vienna Octet), made up of key principals from the Wiener Philharmoniker and the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. Five titles were released in September and the remaining five are released this month.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn addition to recording standard chamber music repertoire, the Vienna Octet refreshingly explored the byways of chamber music, and this collection brings together five rarities of chamber music. The recordings were originally released in the early 1970s and the Rimsky-Korsakov Piano Quintet was recorded in the very last sessions of the Octet. Both, the Borodin and Mendelssohn are early works by the composers, but were published posthumously – the Borodin, published in 1938, shows influences of Mendelssohn and Schumann. Mendelssohn’s Sextet for piano and strings was written in the spring of 1824 when the composer was in his mid-teens and published twenty years after his death.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eConradin Kreutzer is not to be confused with his more famous namesake, Rodolphe Kreutzer (French violinist and composer, dedicatee of Beethoven’s ‘Kreutzer’ Sonata). Conradin was a German composer writing several works for stage as well as a substantial corpus of chamber music. His magnificent Grand Septet is based on the instrumentation of Beethoven’s Septet and was first recorded by the Vienna Octet in 1951. 17 years later they revisited it and it was issued on LP coupled with the Berwald Septet included here.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0067\/4660\/3571\/files\/REVIEWS_CS_WORLD_7169b53a-dbe6-4c81-930b-be7f7575534e_480x480.png?v=1597936904\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘neat and elegant’ (Mendelssohn) \u003cem\u003eGramophone\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘the performance is highly skilled’ (Borodin) \u003cem\u003eGramophone\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘full of grace and charm and has all the polish and virtuosity one has come to expect from this ensemble’ (Kreutzer) \u003cem\u003eGramophone\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘delicacy and lightness of touch … performances are first-class … The recording is quite superlative. Strongly recommended’ (Berwald, Kreutzer) \u003cem\u003eGramophone\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘sheer joie de vivre … an enlivening, engaging and original chamber-music disc if ever there was one’ (Rimsky-Korsakov) \u003cem\u003eGramophone\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0067\/4660\/3571\/files\/TRACK_LISTING_WITH_WORLD_1_4b3088c9-df3c-47ba-bf41-5b7e5d1a8144_480x480.png?v=1597936873\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMENDELSSOHN\u003cbr\u003eSextet in D major, Op. 110\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCONRADIN KREUTZER\u003cbr\u003eGrand Septet in E flat major, Op. 62\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBERWALD\u003cbr\u003eGrand Septet in B flat major\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBORODIN\u003cbr\u003ePiano Quintet in C minor\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRIMSKY-KORSAKOV\u003cbr\u003ePiano Quintet in B flat major\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWalter Panhofer, piano\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWiener Oktett\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DECCA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32340433600599,"sku":"028948023974 - ETC","price":14.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0067\/4660\/3571\/products\/81zRyFoXlcL._SL1421.jpg?v=1600869759","url":"https:\/\/classicselectworld.com\/en-de\/products\/various-romantic-chamber-music-vienna-octet","provider":"ClassicSelect World","version":"1.0","type":"link"}