This three-disc set initially seems more suited to the Naxos label, which has specialized in exhaustive resurrections of the music of forgotten composers, than to the top-of-the-line Swedish imprint BIS, with its frequent emphasis on the virtuoso ideal. On closer hearing, however, the set emerges as at least tangential to their mission. Franz Danzi was not the creator of the wind quintet, which emerged out of various earlier forms of wind ensemble music and was crystallized by Beethoven's Czech contemporary Antoine Reicha. ...
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This three-disc set initially seems more suited to the Naxos label, which has specialized in exhaustive resurrections of the music of forgotten composers, than to the top-of-the-line Swedish imprint BIS, with its frequent emphasis on the virtuoso ideal. On closer hearing, however, the set emerges as at least tangential to their mission. Franz Danzi was not the creator of the wind quintet, which emerged out of various earlier forms of wind ensemble music and was crystallized by Beethoven's Czech contemporary Antoine Reicha. Danzi, an Italian-born associate of both Mozart and Beethoven, was inspired to take up the genre by the works of Reicha, which are a lot more Beethovenian in their harmonies and in their general level of seriousness. The nine wind quintets and three quintets for piano and winds recorded here are, in the main, genial and gentle works. They were composed in the early 1820s. Modest in reach, they are also beautifully crafted in every detail, and their rich textures are claimed by...
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Add this copy of Wind Quintet to cart. $48.46, new condition, Sold by Importcds rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Sunrise, FL, UNITED STATES, published 2007 by BIS.
