Ekaterina Frolova, Mari Sato, Patrick Vida, Lydia Peherstorfer, Sybille Häusle, Stefanie Huber, Le Liu - Bruno Walter: Piano Quintet, Violin Sonata (2016)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 283 Mb | Total time: 59:26 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.573351 | Recorded: 2012, 2013
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 283 Mb | Total time: 59:26 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.573351 | Recorded: 2012, 2013
In the early part of his musical career, before he became one of the most revered conductors of his time, Bruno Walter saw himself as a conductor-composer much like his friend and rôle model, Gustav Mahler. His large-scale Piano Quintet, couched in the late-Romantic idiom, is a powerful expression of Walter’s consummate compositional skill. The Violin Sonata in A major, Walter’s last chamber work, offers a study in expressive contrasts, its unsettled moods reflective of the time in which it was written.