Foerster, Janacek & Haas: Music for Wind Instruments

Three fascinating and rewarding works performed with supreme skill and musicianship by this Czech ensemble. — MusicWeb International, September 2017

Release Date: 18th Aug 2017
Catalogue No: SU42302
Label: Supraphon
Length: 50 minutes

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Foerster, J: Wind Quintet D Major, Op. 95

Work length19:25

Belfiato Quintet

I. Allegro moderato

Track length4:27

II. Andante sostenuto

Track length5:02

III. Allegro scherzando

Track length5:36

IV. Moderato e tranquillo - Allegro vivo - Allegro deciso

Track length4:20

Haas, P: Wind Quintet, Op. 10

Work length14:02

Belfiato Quintet

I. Preludio - Andante, ma vivace

Track length3:11

II. Preghiera - Misterioso e triste

Track length5:02

III. Balo eccentrico - Ritmo marcato

Track length2:09

IV. Epilogo - Maestoso

Track length3:40

Janáček: Mládí (Youth), for wind sextet

Work length17:20

Jindřich Pavliš
Belfiato Quintet

I. Allegro

Track length3:41

II. Andante sostenuto

Track length5:01

III. Vivace

Track length3:51

IV. Allegro animato

Track length4:47

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Recorded in the Church of Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren in Prague - Vinohrady, 10 - 14 Februrary, 2017.

The Belfiato Quintet are yet another exciting Czech chamber ensemble active in the international arena. The members of the young wind quintet perform with renowned orchestras (the Czech Philharmonic, the Philharmonia Orchestra, etc.), and both as individuals and collectively have garnered accolades at competitions (Kateřina Javůrková’s victory at the ARD Munich, first prize for the Belfiato Quintet at the competition in Semmering, Austria, etc.). The debut studio album, which they have recorded 12 years after the ensemble’s foundation, exclusively features Czech music dating from the first half of the 20th century. J. B. Foerster composed the Wind Quintet (his most frequently performed instrumental piece) in 1909 to commission for a virtuoso ensemble formed by the members of the Wiener Philharmoniker. The work by Janáček’s pupil Pavel Haas, written two decades later, bears traces of inspiration by folk music, Janáček, as well as Stravinsky. Leoš Janáček had created his wind sextet Youth just five years previously. Owing to the music teeming with joie de vivre, prevailing over languor and melancholia, one is hard pressed to believe that the artist was 70 years of age when he composed it. Youth – how apt for the Belfiato Quintet, an ensemble sparkling with energy and inspiration!

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September 2017

Three fascinating and rewarding works performed with supreme skill and musicianship by this Czech ensemble.

Foerster, Janacek & Haas: Music for Wind Instruments

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