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Release Date: Tuesday 1 July 2008
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Chamber music purely for wind ensembles was largely overlooked by Romantic composers and as a result Carl Reinecke's genial Sextet and Octet for wind loom rather large in a sparse landscape.
They are substantial, handsomely crafted works in which Reinecke's skill for scoring yields a sonority at once rich, noble and beautifully balanced. Reinecke's cycle of sixteen piano pieces Von der Wiege bis zum Grabe, here arranged for flute and piano by Ernesto Köhler, is a homage to his contemporary Robert Schumann yet loses nothing of the composer's originality and vitality.
Octet, Op. 216
Von der Wiege bis zum Grabe, Op. 202 (arr. for flute and piano)
Sextet, Op. 271