The Nash Ensemble returns once more to the music of Max Bruch, having previously recorded the composer's string octet and quintets. For this recording, the Nash Ensemble pares down to smaller dimensions of two to four instruments. Bruch's most famous works -- the Violin Concerto in G minor, Op. 26, Scottish Fantasy, Op. 46, and Kol Nidrei, Op. 47 -- have been performed and recorded frequently, but his chamber music, written during his early and late life, has suffered from neglect and loss due to early 20th century European ...
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The Nash Ensemble returns once more to the music of Max Bruch, having previously recorded the composer's string octet and quintets. For this recording, the Nash Ensemble pares down to smaller dimensions of two to four instruments. Bruch's most famous works -- the Violin Concerto in G minor, Op. 26, Scottish Fantasy, Op. 46, and Kol Nidrei, Op. 47 -- have been performed and recorded frequently, but his chamber music, written during his early and late life, has suffered from neglect and loss due to early 20th century European political strife, war, and the modernist movement. Here, the Nash Ensemble offers two works from each period. The Piano Trio in C minor, Op. 5, and the String Quartet No. 2 in E major, Op. 10, are from his student years. The Piano Trio begins, uncommonly for the era, with a slow opening movement with an attacca into a playfully dancing Allegro assai. Four Pieces for cello and piano, Op. 70, was written -- as was Kol Nidrei -- for Robert Hausmann, a giant of the day. The opening...
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