Berwald: Quartet / Quintet / Septet

Franz Berwald (Composer), Consortium Classicum (Performer), Dieter Klocker (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Consortium Classicum, Dieter Klocker
• Composer: Franz Berwald
• Audio CD (April 20, 1994)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Koch Schwann (Germ.)
• ASIN: B000006KJI
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #431,681 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Qt in E flat: Adagio/Allegro ma non troppo

2. Qt in E flat: Adagio

3. Qt in E flat: Finale/Allegro

4. Qnt in c: Allegro molto/Scherzo: Poco allegretto/Allegro molto

5. Qnt in c: Adagio quasi Andante

6. Qnt in c: Allegro assai e con spirito

7. Spt in B flat: Introduzione/Adagio/Allegro molto

8. Spt in B flat: Poco adagio/Prestissimo/Adagio

9. Spt in B flat: Finale/Allegro con spirito

Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding performances of fascinating music, December 2, 2011

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This review is from: Berwald: Quartet / Quintet / Septet (Audio CD)

Since the product details above are so skimpy, I will first clarify that this CD contains recordings by CONSORTIUM CLASSICUM in 1986 of three pieces by Berwald: the QUARTET FOR PIANO, CLARINET, HORN AND BASSOON in E flat (1819); the PIANO QUINTET in C minor (1853); and the SEPTET in B flat (1828). After decades of relative neglect, the recording industry began to do justice to this quirkily individual, jovially inventive composer in the last decade and a half of the 20th century. Berwald's innovations (for example, placing the scherzo in the middle of a slow movement, as a central section) are of a type that results in pieces being succinct and pointed, never long-winded or meandering; and Consortium Classicum are alive to every nuance of the music, delivering committed, full-blooded accounts that rank amongst the finest performances of the Swede's chamber works. I cannot understand why this marvellous record has been allowed to become such a rarity!