Pianist Felicja Blumental was a pioneer among performers in that she devoted much of her career to exposing and publicizing past musical masterworks that had slipped under the radar of the so-called "core classical repertoire." The Israeli company Brana Records has taken on the challenge of making Blumental's massive recorded legacy available, and this disc, Piano Quintets by Rubinstein and Rimsky-Korsakov, restores to the active catalog one of her most interesting projects. Not only are these rarely recorded works piano ...
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Pianist Felicja Blumental was a pioneer among performers in that she devoted much of her career to exposing and publicizing past musical masterworks that had slipped under the radar of the so-called "core classical repertoire." The Israeli company Brana Records has taken on the challenge of making Blumental's massive recorded legacy available, and this disc, Piano Quintets by Rubinstein and Rimsky-Korsakov, restores to the active catalog one of her most interesting projects. Not only are these rarely recorded works piano quintets by nineteenth century Russian Romantics, but they are quintets scored for piano and the weirdo combination of flute, clarinet, horn, and bassoon, as opposed to the usual string quartet complement.This was the first recording for both works and originally released as Vox Turnabout LP TV-S 34477; although the disc places the recording date in August 1979, this is impossible as the Turnabout LP was released in 1974. This was certainly a generous program for an LP, as the entire...
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