RYELANDT: Chamber Music - In Flanders Fields Vol. 55 [Import]

Spiegel String Quartet (Artist), Joseph Ryelandt (Composer), none (Conductor), Joost Magerman (Performer), Jozef de Beenhouwer (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Joost Magerman, Jozef de Beenhouwer
• Conductor: none
• Composer: Joseph Ryelandt
• Audio CD (July 8, 2008)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Phaedra
• ASIN: B0017KVRIQ
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #615,135 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Piano Quintet in A minor: Allegro moderato

2. Piano Quintet in A minor: Adagio religioso

3. Piano Quintet in A minor: Finale. Allegro

4. Adagio, for string quartet in F sharp minor, Op. 13

5. String Quartet No. 2 in F minor: Allegro moderato

6. String Quartet No. 2 in F minor: Andante

7. String Quartet No. 2 in F minor: Allegro con fuoco

8. String Quartet No. 2 in F minor: Finale. Allegretto

9. Andante and Variations, for string quartet, bass & piano in G minor ('Ach Tjanne')

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Unknown Superb, December 7, 2011

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J. F. Laurson (Washington, DC United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: RYELANDT: Chamber Music - In Flanders Fields Vol. 55 (Audio CD)

Joseph Ryelandt (1870-1965) was born and died in Bruges where he studied law until Edgar Tinel took him in has his sole student of composition. I knew absolutely nothing of his music before I came across this CD of his chamber music, but apparently he was one of Belgium's eminent post-romantic composers whose grand oratorios and five symphonies were once well known and admired. Volume 55 of Phaedra's indefatigable "In Flanders' Fields" edition, discovering little known and lost Belgian music, brings us some chamber music (1901 Piano Quintet in a-minor and the 1903 String Quartet No.2 in f-minor) that, like volume 51 (Jef van Hoof) makes me want to hear much more of this composer. The music here really doesn't sound as much late-romantic in the 20th century vain as it does classical-romantic in the Beethoven-Brahms-Mendelssohn vain, but when has that ever kept listeners from enjoying chamber music? The works are not derivative nor do they sound like Ryelandt's craftsmanship was not up to the task: the CD means a worthy discovery for me and is a winner all-around.

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