Germany's CPO label has specialized in the revival of disused repertory from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. It's a worthwhile enterprise in view of the likelihood that it's bound to uncover some number of genuinely top-notch pieces lost to history for one reason or another, the reason all too often being the bias shown toward Germanic repertory for so long. This release by the Munich-based Diogenes Quartet is a case on point: it's enjoyable from start to finish, and it includes a unique work well ...
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Germany's CPO label has specialized in the revival of disused repertory from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. It's a worthwhile enterprise in view of the likelihood that it's bound to uncover some number of genuinely top-notch pieces lost to history for one reason or another, the reason all too often being the bias shown toward Germanic repertory for so long. This release by the Munich-based Diogenes Quartet is a case on point: it's enjoyable from start to finish, and it includes a unique work well deserving of more frequent programming, the String Quintet in E minor of Luigi Cherubini, composed in 1837 in the last phase of his life. All three of the quintets here follow not Mozart but Boccherini in their instrumentation, with a second cello (filled by Manuel van der Nahmer, billed as first cellist) instead of a second viola. Those by the Anglo-French composer George Onslow tend to follow Boccherini as well in their melodic orientation, although in the later of the two, the String...
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