Since you are interested in Schubert: Die Forelle (Trout Quintet) / Hummel: Quintet, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
BEDRICH SMETANA
Smetana: Piano trio (with Liszt - Elegies) Trio Wanderer [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Feb/2011 ] "What a fascinating issue this is. The combination of arrangements and original compositions variously for piano, violin and cello by Liszt and Smetana's marvellous G minor Piano Trio is appropriate...The Wanderer Trio are very successful in the six... |
BUXTEHUDE
Sacred Cantatas (Incls 'Herzlich lieb hab ich Dich, o Herr') Cantus Colln / Konrad Junghanel [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 1/Sep/2008 ] Buxtehude's major contribution to mid-baroque German sacred music lay in the Abendmusiken, the evening concerts organized before Christmas by the organist of Lübeck outside the context of his official duties. While most contemporary cantors had to... |
JOHANN NEPOMUK HUMMEL
Hummel: Grande Serenade / Potpourri / Grand Serenade Consortium Classicum [ MDG / CD - released 20/May/2007 ] JOHANN NEPOMUK HUMMEL was born in Bratislava in 1778 and died in Weimar in 1837. A child prodigy and pupil of Mozart for two years, he became one of the most brilliant virtuoso pianist-composers of the following generation. |
ELGAR
Nursery Suite, Serenade, Dream Children & other works English Chamber Orchestra / Paul Goodwin (with William Bennett, flute) [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 20/Feb/2009 ] "Paul Goodwin conducts with flair; alert to what's written on the page, sensitive to what's not." - CLASSIC CD |
RODRIGO
Concierto de Aranjuez / Fantasia para un gentilhombre / Musica para un jardin / etc Marco Socias (guitar) / Orquesta Ciudad de Granada / Josep Pons [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 20/Sep/2009 ] "Socias and Pons hit you on the head with ethnic flavouring, the music sings tartly, then sweetly, but always with a Spanish accent." - The Times (22 Oct 2002) |
BRAHMS
Sacred Choral Music: Geistliche Chormusik RIAS Kammerchor / Marcus Creed [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 20/Feb/2009 ] "The RIAS Chamber Choir produce a fine quality of homogenous tone and, under Marcus Creed, show themselves fully responsive to both words and music.The RIAS disc remains a strong recommendation, especially for its inclusion of the surviving Missa... |
KRENEK
Lamentatio Jeremiae Prophetae RIAS-Kammerchor / Marcus Creed [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 1/Sep/2008 ] When Ernst Krenek wrote these Lamentations in 1941, his music had been banned by the Nazi regime as 'degenerate art' and he was an exile in the United States, where he earned his living as a teacher. Ingeniously combining the polyphonic tradition and... |
JOHN BLOW
Blow: Venus & Adonis Rosemary Joshua (sop), Gerald Finley (bar), Robin Blaze (countertenor), Clare College, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Renae Jacobs [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 29/Sep/2008 ] "Rene Jacobs and his musicians present Blow's Venus and Adonis with persuasive style and dramatic clarity...Venus's lament and the closing plaintive chorus touch the heart deeply." (Daily Telegraph) |
GABRIEL FAURE
Faure: Piano Quartets Nos No 1 & 2 Trio Wanderer, with Antoine Tamestit, viola [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Feb/2010 ] "The playing is magnificent, not just for its superb ensemble qualities, including ideal balances between the piano and strings, but also for what it tells us about the music." (10/10 ClassicsToday March 2010) |
MANUEL DE FALLA
Seven Spanish Popular Songs / Harpsichord Concerto / El gran teatro del mundo Victoria de los Angeles (sop) / Instrumental soloists, Josep Pons [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 1/Sep/2008 ] Following in the footsteps of his teacher Felipe Pedrell, Manuel de Falla chose to set his music within the twin Spanish traditions of art and folk music. If the Siete canciones populares españolas mark the culmination of his work on folksong, the... |