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Belgian composer and musicologist (1915-1986)
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Vividly present playing & discreet virtuosity from Ensemble 360 at the launch of Music in the Round's 2022 Sheffield Chamber Music Festival
[…] that got out of control. 'Scrying' was for quiet clarinet trills, double bass in rather elephantine mode and violin trills, this developed with the violin emulating the bass and then evaporated. 'Majolica' featured all the instruments in what became a moto perpetuo, fast and vivid. Meredith shows a remarkable ear for different sound worlds in these movements, sometimes unlikely but always intriguing and entrancing. After the interval, we heard a single work, Antonin Dvorak's Piano Quinet in A, Op. 81. Dvorak wrote this in 1888, having started off by revising an early Piano Quintet but then deciding to write a new one. Whilst the form might be inspired by Schumann's Piano Quintet but Dvorak melds the Romantic structure with Czech folk-music elements and though he never uses folk melodies, many of his own have a distinctively Czech cast. We began almost in the middle as the cello launched a wonderfully soulful melody […]
2015-06-15 20:55:19
[…] veto and the couple were married one day before Clara’s 21st birthday. 1840 was Schumann’s year of song, in which he composed two great cycles: Dichterliebe and Frauenliebe und -leben. Both relate to his feelings for Clara, yet the sheer quality of their piano preludes and postludes adds a new dimension to the possibilities of lied. There was also the First Symphony. In 1842 Schumann’s study of Haydn inspired chamber music, including a masterly Piano Quinet: in 1843 Mendelssohn offered him piano professorship at the new Leipzig Conservatory. But Schumann’s lifelong manic-depression was now taking the form of increasing bleakness of vision and creative sterility, which manifested itself through serious breakdowns. He resigned and moved to Dresden but Clara’s tours, triumphs for herself as a concert-artist, only emphasized how widespread indifference to her husband’s music had become. He lacked the training to dash off musical money-spinners: operas, festival cantatas, frothy […]
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