After years of recording more or less exclusively for the Delos label, in addition to one-off projects for Koch and Arabesque, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center has begun to branch out with its own label, CMS Studio Recordings. On this disc, its second release, Chamber Music Society artistic co-director and pianist Wu Han led a stellar group of players -- violinists Ani Kavafian and Arnaud Sussmann, violist Paul Neubauer, and cellist Fred Sherry -- through two monuments of English chamber music: Edward Elgar's A ...
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After years of recording more or less exclusively for the Delos label, in addition to one-off projects for Koch and Arabesque, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center has begun to branch out with its own label, CMS Studio Recordings. On this disc, its second release, Chamber Music Society artistic co-director and pianist Wu Han led a stellar group of players -- violinists Ani Kavafian and Arnaud Sussmann, violist Paul Neubauer, and cellist Fred Sherry -- through two monuments of English chamber music: Edward Elgar's A minor Piano Quartet, Op. 84, and William Walton's D minor Piano Quartet. It is an interesting combination, in that these works were written at the same time -- 1918-1919 -- but from completely different motivations and perspectives. Elgar's work was in part inspired by the older composer's interest in the supernatural and ghosts; while for him, his piano quartet sounded "weird," to us it is the accomplished and fulfilling statement of a seasoned composer, technically solid,...
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