Toch: Piano Quintet / Violin Sonata No. 2 / Burlesken / 3 Impromptus
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ERNST TOCH
Toch: Piano Quintet / Violin Sonata No. 2 / Burlesken / 3 Impromptus
Spectrum Concerts Berlin
[ Naxos American Classics / CD ]
Release Date: Monday 31 March 2008
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Since 1997 Spectrum Concerts Berlin has made an important contribution to the growing recognition and appreciation of Ernst Toch's unique musical voice. One of the most neglected 20th-century composers, and a noted teacher and writer on musical composition, Toch was a selftaught modernist who learned music's fundamentals from the Mozart string quartets. This rare recording of Toch's solo and chamber music features the powerful and defiantly vivid Piano Quintet (1938), written in Hollywood following the composer's escape to the USA, and the poignantly melancholy Violin Sonata No. 2 (1928), a product of Toch's Berlin years when his music was regularly performed to appreciative audiences.
"I consider Toch's Piano Quintet not only one of his best, but one of the Twentieth Century's. Toch stuffs it with strong invention and exciting counterpoint. The work has four movements: "The Lyrical Part," "The Whimsical Part," "The Contemplative Part," "The Dramatic Part." I know of few other chamber pieces so satisfying in its entire design as this one.
The performers all do well. Daniel Blumenthal…is the driving engine of most of the works here. The string players are superb chamber partners…Frank Dodge on cello stands out…for his large musical intelligence, not only in the Impromptus, but in the Quintet as well. Of course, there Toch gives the cello and the piano the best opportunities to shine. Blumenthal and Dodge make the most of them. Highly recommended" Classical Net
