Ries: Flute Quartets Op 145
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FERDINAND RIES
Ries: Flute Quartets Op 145
John Herrick Littlefield (flute) and ensemble
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Release Date: Sunday 21 October 2007
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A pupil of Beethoven in Vienna, Ferdinand Ries enjoyed a successful career as a performer and as a composer. After a period in England, he finally retired to his native Rhineland where he wrote his Flute Quartets. Written in an early Romantic style, the Quartets are notable for their diversity, the first with a Spanish finale, the second more sombre in tone, and the third providing a bright conclusion, as though it were designed to cap an evening of music-making. Quotations or near quotations from works by other composers of the period give the Quartets a humorous and unusual unpredictability.
Tracks:
Flute Quartet in C major, Op. 145, No. 1
Flute Quartet in E minor, Op. 145, No. 2
Flute Quartet in A major, Op. 145, No. 3
