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Quintets by Reicha / Siegenthaler / Stamic Quartet (CD, 2024)

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Product Identifiers

Record LabelBrlt, Brilliant Classics

UPC5028421965963

eBay Product ID (ePID)3071189339

Product Key Features

Release Year2024

FormatCD

GenreClassical Artists

ArtistReicha / Siegenthaler / Stamic Quartet

Release TitleQuintets

Dimensions

Item Height0.38 in

Item Weight0.22 lb

Item Length5.50 in

Item Width4.76 in

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs1

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States

NotesAntonín Reicha and Sigismund Neukomm were contemporaries. Their time in Vienna, where both were students of Joseph Haydn, crossed from 1802-04, and from 1810 until the end of their lives both had their permanent residence in Paris. It is therefore easy to imagine that their paths crossed several times. In common was their striving to preserve the style of Viennese Classicism, fully expressed in the works presented here. Antonín Reicha's (1770-1836) Quintet for Clarinet and String Quartet Op. 89 is typical of his balanced, classical style. Overall, the work reflects Reicha's affinity with opera. The harmonic turns are subordinated to the clarity of the vocal melody and the specifications of the form; everything has it's place and it's good order. Yet, in spite of this seemingly rigid formula there are surprising moments, for example the long syncopated melodic line at the beginning of the development in the first movement. The clarinet responds to the brash overture-like beginning of the opening theme with lyrically contrasting vocal garlands, whose motives are immediately imitated by the strings; an artfully counterpointing exchange between the instruments unfolds. What at first glance looks like the schematic application of well-learned compositional skill turns out on closer inspection (and repeated listening) to be a successful musical testimony to it's time with many hidden and sophisticated ideas. In Sigismund Neukomm's (1778-1858) Clarinet Quintet Op. 8, published in 1809, one can hear his desire to manifest admiration for his 'three-leaf clover' of influences: Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. In it's entirety, Neukomm's Clarinet Quintet radiates more noble elegance than original innovation, and one can well imagine that this expression corresponded perfectly to the composer's own attitude to life.