Bruno Walter: Piano Quintet in F sharp minor
Le Liu (piano), Patrick Vida (violin), Lydia Peherstorfer (violin), Sybille Häusle (viola) & Stefanie Huber (cello), Ekaterina Frolova (violin) & Mari Sato (piano)
His 1908 Violin Sonata, given a full-bodied, spirited performance by violinist Ekaterina Frolova and pianist Mari Sato, is an ambitious, sweeping work...Walter chose the right career path, but...
Bruno Walter: Piano Quintet in F sharp minor
Le Liu (piano), Patrick Vida (violin), Lydia Peherstorfer (violin), Sybille Häusle (viola) & Stefanie Huber (cello), Ekaterina Frolova (violin) & Mari Sato (piano)
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His 1908 Violin Sonata, given a full-bodied, spirited performance by violinist Ekaterina Frolova and pianist Mari Sato, is an ambitious, sweeping work...Walter chose the right career path, but...
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In the early part of his musical career, before he became one of the most revered conductors of his time, Bruno Walter saw himself as a conductor-composer much like his friend and rôle model, Gustav Mahler. His large-scale Piano Quintet, couched in the late-Romantic idiom, is a powerful expression of Walter’s consummate compositional skill. The Violin Sonata in A major, Walter’s last chamber work, offers a study in expressive contrasts, its unsettled moods reflective of the time in which it was written.
Contents and tracklist
- Ekaterina Frolova, Mari Sato
- Patrick Vida, Lydia Peherstorfer, Sybille Häusle, Stefanie Huber, Le Liu
Awards and reviews
1st September 2016
His 1908 Violin Sonata, given a full-bodied, spirited performance by violinist Ekaterina Frolova and pianist Mari Sato, is an ambitious, sweeping work...Walter chose the right career path, but this recording provides interesting insights into both a great conductor’s mind and the musical hothouse that was early 20th-century Vienna.
