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Mládí - Czech Wind Quintets

Composer Leoš Janáček
Bohuslav Martinů (Martinu)
Antoine Reicha
Performer Michael Hasel
Hendrik Heilmann
Manfred Preis
Marion Reinhard
Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet
Period Classical
Romantic
Catalogue Number BIS-1802 CD
EAN 7318590018026
Format CD
Release date Aug 2011
Total time 78'50

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The eminent Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet (BPWQ) has recorded a number of discs for BIS, including programmes focusing on composers from France, Hungary, America (North and South) and Germany. The ensemble’s latest CD features three composers born in what is now the Czech Republic; a varied offering, opening with a wind quintet by Anton Reicha, who in the early 19th century ‘invented’ the entire genre, and closing with one of the absolute pinnacles in 20th-century chamber music for winds, namely Janáček’s Mládí (‘Youth’) from 1924. Framed by these two is Martinů’s Sextet for piano and winds, written in Paris in 1929 and with echoes of both Bohemian music and jazz elements in a mix typical for this composer. If the musical styles are diverse, so are the sonorities: in fact, the only work scored for ‘regular’ wind quintet is Reicha's Quintet in E flat major. But the 'father of the wind quintet' also experimented with exchanging a cor anglais for the oboe in the three rarely heard separate pieces included here. As for Martinů, he added a piano to the quintet, but at the same time replaced the horn with a second bassoon, and made one of the five movements, a brief Scherzo, into a virtuosic duo for flute and piano alone. Another duo – for piccolo and piano – is also included here: Janáček’s two-minute-long March of the Bluebirds. The piece sprang from a childhood memory, and when Janáček some months later began composing Mládí, based on recollections of his youth, he revised it to form the third movement of the suite. Like the other movements it is scored for wind quintet and bass clarinet – another unusual combination – but Janáček retained certain characteristics of the original by having the flutist alternate between flute and piccolo.
 
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  Anton Reicha
  Quintet in E flat major, Op.88 No.2 24'25
01 I. Lento – Allegro moderato 7'08
02 II. Menuetto. Allegro 3'48
03 III. Poco andante grazioso 7'48
04 IV. Finale. Allegretto 5'41
 
 
  Bohuslav Martinu (Martinů)
  Sextet for piano and winds, H174 14'49
05 I. Preludium 3'17
06 II. Adagio 3'32
07 III. Scherzo (I. Divertimento) 2'24
08 IV. Blues (II. Divertimento) 2'59
09 V. Finale 2'37
 
 
  Anton Reicha
  Three Pieces for cor anglais and wind quartet 18'14
10 Andante arioso in E flat major 5'52
11 Andante in F major 5'33
12 Adagio in D minor 6'49
 
 
  Leos Janácek
  Pochod modráčků (March of the Bluebirds), JW7/9 for piccolo and piano
13 Pochod modráčků (March of the Bluebirds), JW7/9 for piccolo and piano 2'11
 
 
  Leos Janácek
  Mládí (Youth), suite for wind sextet, JW7/10 16'49
14 I. Allegro 3'40
15 II. Andante sostenuto 4'55
16 III. Vivace 3'46
17 IV. Allegro animato 4'28
 
  Album total 78'50
EnsembleBerlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet
ComposerJanácek, Leos
Martinu (Martinů), Bohuslav
Reicha, Anton
PianoHeilmann, Hendrik
BassoonReinhard, Marion
Piccolo/fluteHasel, Michael
Bass clarinetPreis, Manfred

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