Reicha –

Musique de chambre

The fruitful partnership between the Alpha label, the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel and the Palazzetto Bru Zane continues with this set of chamber music by Anton Reicha, performed by the musicians of the Chapel, young talents of an exceptionally high standard, ready and willing to take up the challenge of this music. A key figure of the early nineteenth century, this Czech composer who became a naturalised French citizen did not leave his contemporaries indifferent. Both his music and his theoretical writings set zealous partisans against fierce detractors. This three-part album, assembling pieces from different genres and periods, gives an insight into the richness of the composer's extremely prolific output of chamber music, whose originality can still fascinate us nearly two centuries after his death: it illustrates the diversity of the instrumental genres he tackled (sonatas, fugues, études and variations for piano; piano trio, string quartet, string quintet) and a compositional art characterised at once by perfect mastery - as one would expect from someone trained by Haydn in Vienna between 1802 and 1808 - and by the greatest originality.

Country of Pressing	US
Artist	Reicha
Released	2017
Music Genre	Classical
Label	ALPHA
Condition	New
UPC	3760014193699
SKU	al-3760014193699

1.1 I. Allegro Moderato - Quatuor Girard
1.2 II. Poco Andante - Quatuor Girard
1.3 III. Minuetto. Allegretto - Quatuor Girard
1.4 IV. Finale. Allegretto - Quatuor Girard
1.5 I. Allegretto Poco Andante - Tanguy Parisot/Quatuor Girard
1.6 II. Allegro Minueto. Allegro Assai - Tanguy Parisot/Quatuor Girard
1.7 III. Andante Poco Lento - Tanguy Parisot/Quatuor Girard
1.8 IV. Finale. Allegro Vivace Assai - Tanguy Parisot/Quatuor Girard
2.1 I. Allegro - Josquin Otal
2.2 II. Romance. Largo - Josquin Otal
2.3 III. Presto - Josquin Otal
2.4 Étude No. 29, Op. 97, 'L'enharmonique' - Josquin Otal
2.5 Andante Maestoso - Josquin Otal
2.6 Andante. Theme - Victoria Vassilenko
2.7 Variation 1 - Victoria Vassilenko
2.8 Variation 2 - Victoria Vassilenko
2.9 Variation 3 - Victoria Vassilenko
2.10 Variation 4 - Victoria Vassilenko
2.11 Menuetto - Victoria Vassilenko
2.12 Finale. Allegretto Scherzando - Victoria Vassilenko
2.13 Fugue No. 9, 'Cercle Harmonique' - Dorde Radevski
2.14 Theme - Dorde Radevski
2.15 Variation 1. Con Più Moto - Dorde Radevski
2.16 Variation 3 - Dorde Radevski
2.17 Variation 4 - Dorde Radevski
2.18 Variation 6 - Dorde Radevski
2.19 Variation 7 - Dorde Radevski
2.20 Variation 8 - Dorde Radevski
2.21 Variation 12 - Dorde Radevski
2.22 Variation 13. Adagio - Dorde Radevski
2.23 Coda. Allegro Assai - Dorde Radevski
3.1 I. Allegro Non Troppo - Trio Medici
3.2 II. Minuetto. Allegro - Trio Medici
3.3 III. Andantino - Trio Medici
3.4 IV. Finale. Allegro Assai - Trio Medici
3.5 I. (Allegretto) - Various Performers
3.6 II. Andante - Various Performers
3.7 III. Minuetto - Various Performers
3.8 IV. Finale. Lento Un Poco Andante - Allegro - Various Performers