Music For Winds: 20th Century Music for Woodwinds [Box set]

Dorian Quintet (Performer), New York Philomusica (Performer), Jean Casadesus (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Dorian Quintet, New York Philomusica, Jean Casadesus
• Audio CD (August 22, 1994)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Box set
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• Label: Vox (Classical)
• ASIN: B000001K3S
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #420,409 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Quatuor pour la fin du temps, for violin, cello, clarinet & piano, I/22: No. 1, Liturgie de cristal

2. Quatuor pour la fin du temps, for violin, cello, clarinet & piano, I/22: No. 2, Vocalise pour l'ange qui annonce la fin du temps

3. Quatuor pour la fin du temps, for violin, cello, clarinet & piano, I/22: No. 3, Abime des oiseaux

4. Quatuor pour la fin du temps, for violin, cello, clarinet & piano, I/22: No. 4, Intermede

5. Quatuor pour la fin du temps, for violin, cello, clarinet & piano, I/22: No. 5, Louange a l'eternite de Jesus

6. Quatuor pour la fin du temps, for violin, cello, clarinet & piano, I/22: No. 6, Danse de la fureur, pour les sept trompettes

7. Quatuor pour la fin du temps, for violin, cello, clarinet & piano, I/22: No. 7, Fouillis d'arcs-en-ciel, pour l'ange qui announce la

8. Quatuor pour la fin du temps, for violin, cello, clarinet & piano, I/22: No. 8, Lourange a l'immortalite de Jesus

9. Le merle noir, for flute & piano, I/37

10. Summer Music, for wind quintet, Op. 31

Disc: 2

1. Sextet for wind quintet & piano in C major, FP 100: Allegro Vivace

2. Sextet for wind quintet & piano in C major, FP 100: Divertissement: Andantino

3. Sextet for wind quintet & piano in C major, FP 100: Prestissimo

4. Pièces brèves (3), for wind quintet: No. 1, (Allegro)

5. Pièces brèves (3), for wind quintet: No. 2, (Andante)

6. Pièces brèves (3), for wind quintet: No. 3, (Allegro scherzando)

7. Scherzo for winds, Op 48

8. Quintet for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn & bassoon No. 1: No. 1, Andante tranquillo

9. Quintet for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn & bassoon No. 1: No. 2, Presto

10. Quintet for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn & bassoon No. 1: No. 3, Andante

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This is truly a life-affirming collection. There are many very good to brilliant recordings of "Quatuor pour la fin du temps" of varying interpretations, currently available, most recently on the budget Naxos label. Since this composition, composed under horrendous conditions in a German prisoner of war camp, is a 20th Century masterpiece, you might prefer one of those. But the recording here is a fine one, featuring clarinetist Joseph Rabbai, pianist Robert Levin & violinist Isidore Cohen, plus it comes along with a selection of the century's loveliest wind & wind quintet compositions by Samuel Barber (the famous "Summer Music"), Poulenc, Francaix. Ibert & Irving Fine. Best of all, most of the other pieces are performed by the Dorian Quintet, modern music specialists who also recorded for the CRI Label & have premiered many new works. The Poulenc & Francaix are particularly spry, as they should be.

So here's the deal: As with many of the best Vox Boxes, you get a lot of good music to sample for your bucks. The American String Quartet & American Piano Music Vox Box series introduced me to much terrific music. Others, such as the complete Chavez symphonies, Prokofiev film music, & some of the Alfred Brendel Beethoven boxes are still indispensible. The Seventies were hardly the sonic dark ages, so the ADD sound is just fine (often it's warmer than DDD).

If you wanna dip your ears into some new music, or if you're a curious college clarinetist checking out the ensemble repertoire, Music for Winds will give you hours of pleasure.