Label: CAvi
Format: CD
Barcode: 4260085531028
Catalog number: AVI 8553102
Releasedate: 06-09-19
Format: CD
Barcode: 4260085531028
Releasedate: 06-09-19
- Latest Live release from the famous chamber music festival SPANNUNGEN (June) 2018
- Very unusual settings for a string octet. Only festival achieve such extraordinary casting.
- Neither, the octets, nor Glière nor Hahn (French) is really known in the West
- Outstanding artists to team up
RUSSIAN / FRENCH Late Romantic
GLIÈRE: „ Of all the major Russian composers, Reinhold Glière is one of the least well known in the West. His life spanned a vast period from the Czar’s reign to Soviet dictatorship, and he made it through the Stalin era relatively intact by mostly avoiding conflict without losing face. Such dilemmas were to haunt the lives of Glière’s pupil Prokofiev, and especially that of his colleague Shostakovich, 30 years younger, but they were not yet current in 1900, when 20-year-old Glière, still a student, injected all of his youthful verve into composing his String Octet in D Major, Op. 5. The work soon gained immense popularity in Russia, where, still today, Glière’s Octet is sometimes even held in higher esteem than the likewise youthful and fresh String Octet by Mendelssohn.
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Whereas Shostakovich’s well-known 8th String Quartet and 2nd Piano Trio both bear the traces of inner anguish in the face of global and personal tragedies, the Two Pieces for String Octet, Op. 11 let us look back upon the beginning of an outstanding musical career that was nevertheless overshadowed by harsh difficulties. These two pieces with The headings Prélude and Scherzo are from the period when Shostakovich was still a student in Saint Petersburg…..” (from the line notes Pedro Obiera)
Reynaldo Hahn was a fellow student of Maurice Ravel at Paris Conservatoire. He was born in Caracas, to where his father, a Hamburg businessman, had moved. His mother was from Venezuela. Hahn studied composition with several professors including opera composer Jules Massenet. He was in close contact with the Paris art scene and later became a close friend – intermittently also the companion – of author Marcel Proust. Reynaldo Hahn gained considerable renown with his song cycles, operettas, and ballets….. His Piano Quintet in F Sharp Minor (1922) is a rhapsodic work in the lineage of French Late Romanticism …….(from the lines Notes by Matthias Corvin)
GLIÈRE: „ Of all the major Russian composers, Reinhold Glière is one of the least well known in the West. His life spanned a vast period from the Czar’s reign to Soviet dictatorship, and he made it through the Stalin era relatively intact by mostly avoiding conflict without losing face. Such dilemmas were to haunt the lives of Glière’s pupil Prokofiev, and especially that of his colleague Shostakovich, 30 years younger, but they were not yet current in 1900, when 20-year-old Glière, still a student, injected all of his youthful verve into composing his String Octet in D Major, Op. 5. The work soon gained immense popularity in Russia, where, still today, Glière’s Octet is sometimes even held in higher esteem than the likewise youthful and fresh String Octet by Mendelssohn.
. ……“
Whereas Shostakovich’s well-known 8th String Quartet and 2nd Piano Trio both bear the traces of inner anguish in the face of global and personal tragedies, the Two Pieces for String Octet, Op. 11 let us look back upon the beginning of an outstanding musical career that was nevertheless overshadowed by harsh difficulties. These two pieces with The headings Prélude and Scherzo are from the period when Shostakovich was still a student in Saint Petersburg…..” (from the line notes Pedro Obiera)
Reynaldo Hahn was a fellow student of Maurice Ravel at Paris Conservatoire. He was born in Caracas, to where his father, a Hamburg businessman, had moved. His mother was from Venezuela. Hahn studied composition with several professors including opera composer Jules Massenet. He was in close contact with the Paris art scene and later became a close friend – intermittently also the companion – of author Marcel Proust. Reynaldo Hahn gained considerable renown with his song cycles, operettas, and ballets….. His Piano Quintet in F Sharp Minor (1922) is a rhapsodic work in the lineage of French Late Romanticism …….(from the lines Notes by Matthias Corvin)
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1String Octet in D Major, Op. 5 (1903)I Allegro moderato06:48
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2String Octet in D Major, Op. 5 (1903)II Allegro05:31
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3String Octet in D Major, Op. 5 (1903)III Andante04:53
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4String Octet in D Major, Op. 5 (1903)IV Allegro assai07:59
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5Piano Quintet in F sharp Minor (1921)I Molto agitato e con fuoco11:22
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6Piano Quintet in F sharp Minor (1921)II Andante, non troppo lento09:05
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7Piano Quintet in F sharp Minor (1921)III Allegretto grazioso07:19
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8Two Pieces for String Octet, Op. 11I Prélude05:54
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9Two Pieces for String Octet, Op. 11II Scherzo04:41