Music of the 19th century as received in our own continues to seem focused on large forms and exquisite miniatures for piano, but many composers of the time wrote in genres that remain little explored today. Choral music is one, and related are the vocal quartets and other small vocal ensemble pieces that would have been staples of home music-making, in much of America as well as in Germany, for many decades. This enjoyable little disc from Leipzig's Calmus Ensemble is presented as a collection of household music from the ...
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Music of the 19th century as received in our own continues to seem focused on large forms and exquisite miniatures for piano, but many composers of the time wrote in genres that remain little explored today. Choral music is one, and related are the vocal quartets and other small vocal ensemble pieces that would have been staples of home music-making, in much of America as well as in Germany, for many decades. This enjoyable little disc from Leipzig's Calmus Ensemble is presented as a collection of household music from the home of Robert and Clara Schumann. It resides a bit uncomfortably somewhere between that and an introduction to this repertory in general: the selections from Bach's Clavierbüchlein für Anna Magdalena Bach would have been unique to the Schumanns and perhaps a few like-minded enthusiasts, whereas Brahms' Six Songs and Romances, Op. 93a, were not even written until the early 1880s, long after Robert Schumann's death. The music is uniformly charming, however, and the pieces by Robert...
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