Camerata Quartet - Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński & Stanisław Moniusko: String Quartets (2006)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue) ~ 320 Mb | Total time: 62:16 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Dux | # DUX 0561 | Recorded: 1994-1995
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue) ~ 320 Mb | Total time: 62:16 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Dux | # DUX 0561 | Recorded: 1994-1995
This interesting disc from Dux surveys early Polish string quartets by two major figures in Polish music who were contemporaries of Chopin, Ignacy Feliks Dobrzynski, and Stanislaw Moniuszko. Moniuszko is best known through his operas and large sacred choral works; outside of the two string quartets played here by the Camerata Quartet, he produced almost nothing in terms of chamber music. Dobrzynski wrote four operas, of which Monbar, or the Freebooters (1838) was the work the composer considered his most important. However, in posterity it is through instrumental music that Dobrzynski is known – his two symphonies, various pieces in concertante format, and numerous chamber and solo piano works have kept his name alive.