Strauss, Richard: Capriccio - Prelude Op. 85 for string sextet
Bruckner, Anton: String Quintet in F Major -- I. Gemassigt
II. Scherzo: Schnell - Trio: Langsamer
III. Adagio
IV. Finale: Libhaft bewegt
Bruckner, Anton: Intermezzo in D minor for string quintet
CD Review
“This is quite glorious … one senses right from the opening of Bruckner’s Quintet—surely one of the finest quintets ever written, for any combination— an intensity that matches its ambitious structure … it’s obvious from the first bars of the achingly beautiful Prelude … that this is going to be an
exceptional performance”
“Strongly recommended”
“Easily takes first place within the exiguous competition”
15th May 2011
***
“The substitute intermezzo (with the same trio) is appended here, but the original second movement is, of course, played in this superb account. As a preamble of a stylistically opposite kind — a Bruckner antidote — the ensemble offers the suavely concise string-sextet prelude to Strauss’s opera Capriccio.”
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Strauss, Richard: Capriccio - Prelude Op. 85 for string sextet
