Zuk Records is the German label run by Polish horn player Zbigniew Zuk, and the usual fare found on Zuk consists of Zuk's own horn playing. This is certainly not a bad thing, as Zuk is excellent and plumbs musical terrain for the horn that relatively few others have traversed. Elfrida Andrée, Pauline Viardot, Lili Boulanger, Louise Farrenc represents an attempt by Zuk to branch out into other streams, and this is an intriguing choice -- violinist Karin Hendel and pianist Ewa Warykiewicz in a recital of female composers, ...
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Zuk Records is the German label run by Polish horn player Zbigniew Zuk, and the usual fare found on Zuk consists of Zuk's own horn playing. This is certainly not a bad thing, as Zuk is excellent and plumbs musical terrain for the horn that relatively few others have traversed. Elfrida Andrée, Pauline Viardot, Lili Boulanger, Louise Farrenc represents an attempt by Zuk to branch out into other streams, and this is an intriguing choice -- violinist Karin Hendel and pianist Ewa Warykiewicz in a recital of female composers, mostly from the nineteenth century. Products of male-dominated music conservatories will flinch and wince at the very mention of the words "nineteenth century female composers," as to them the phrase evokes the perfumed salon with its lace doily-covered piano, candelabras, and shallow music-making. None of the music here falls anywhere close to such a category.Anyone who appreciates Brahms' violin sonatas will enjoy Louise Farrenc's noble and substantive Deuxième Sonate, Op. 39, and...
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