Kuhlau: Piano Quartet No. 3; Malling: Piano Quartet

Copenhagen Piano Quartet

6.220591

The prizewinning Copenhagen Piano Quartet presents works by composers cosmopolitan and conservative, but each brimming with charm on this new release, following up their acclaimed CD: Kuhlau: Piano Quartet’s 1 & 2 (SACD 6.220596) from 2015. • German-born Friedrich Kuhlau (1786-1832) declared his Piano Quartet No. 3 ‘my best to date’, speaking of a large-scale work of drama offset by grace and highlighting the composer’s contrapuntal gift. From the outset, Kuhlau stated that he intended to write three piano quartets. With this new release, Kuhlau’s complete piano quartets are available in recordings by the young and rising Copenhagen Piano Quartet. • A century later, the C minor quartet by the ‘Danish Saint-Saëns’ Otto Malling (1848-1915) presents a perfect picture of this master craftsman’s clarity and concision while showing tantalizing signs of his sensuality too. Malling was the pupil of J.P.E. Hartmann and Niels W. Gade, and this is his one and only piano quartet, which was also his very last chamber work to compose.

SACD

Muzyka klasyczna

Dacapo

06-05-2019

0747313159161