Braunfels: String Quartet Nos. 1 - 3; String Quintet in E-Flat Major, Op. 63 - Avi Music: AVI8553018 - CD or download

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Release Date: 21st Oct 2022
Catalogue No: AVI8553018
Label: Avi Music
Length: 2 hours 13 minutes

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Braunfels: String Quartet No. 1 in A minor, Op. 60

Work length31:32

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Minguet Quartett (string quartet), Ulrich Isfort (violin), Annette Reisinger (violin), Aroa Sorin (viola), Matthias Diener (cello)
Recorded: 2020-03
Recording Venue: Deutschlandfunk Kammermusiksaal, Köln

I. Allegro moderato

Track length8:29

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II. Langsam

Track length7:01

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III. Scherzo

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IV. Allegro

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Braunfels: String Quartet No. 2 in F major, Op. 61

Work length35:13

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Minguet Quartett (string quartet), Ulrich Isfort (violin), Annette Reisinger (violin), Aroa Sorin (viola), Matthias Diener (cello)
Recorded: 2019-12
Recording Venue: Deutschlandfunk Kammermusiksaal, Köln

I. Allegro

Track length9:41

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II. Scherzo

Track length8:23

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III. Adagio

Track length11:30

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IV. Vivace

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Braunfels: String Quartet No. 3 in E minor, Op. 67

Work length26:33

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Minguet Quartett (string quartet), Ulrich Isfort (violin), Annette Reisinger (violin), Aroa Sorin (viola), Matthias Diener (cello)
Recorded: 2020-03
Recording Venue: Deutschlandfunk Kammermusiksaal, Köln

I. Lento

Track length8:42

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II. Andante

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III. Andante sostenuto

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IV. Tarantella (Allegro molto)

Track length6:46

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Braunfels: String Quintet

Work length40:05

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Minguet Quartett (string quartet), Jens-Peter Maintz (cello), Ulrich Isfort (violin), Annette Reisinger (violin), Aroa Sorin (viola), Matthias Diener (cello)
Recorded: 2021-06
Recording Venue: Deutschlandfunk Kammermusiksaal, Köln

I. Adagio - Allegro

Track length14:43

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II. Andante cantabile

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III. Menuetto (Allegretto) - Trio

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IV. Allegro molto

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A recording of the complete works for chamber music by Walter Braunfels.

Walter Braunfels was a highly influential musician and composer in the time between the two world wars in Germany, specifically in the Cologne region. As Braunfels was half Jewish, he was removed from his academic posts including at the Musikhochschule Koln. His chamber music works for strings are a wide screen reflection of his thoughts and internal constraints during the last period of WWII and the new freedom.

"Analysis obviously cannot seize the essence. [] If my music has meaning, it does not lie in the musical material itself, but beneath it: in the artistic approach and its relationship with my world view." (Walter Braunfels).

Walter Braunfels wrote his first two string quartets in 1944; they were followed after the war by the String Quintet (1946/47), the Third String Quartet (1946/47), and the new Final Movement composed for the latter(1953). All these works meet the highest standards in terms of transparent voice leading, closely knit polyphony, and boldly expanded tonal harmony. In 1933 he was dismissed from all posts, regardless of his merits, because he was half Jewish. Braunfels was restored to his post of director at Cologne Conservatory in 1945. . Braunfels was swimming against the tide: profoundly rooted in the Classical-Romantic tradition, his style was deemed inconvenient in the face of prevalent postmodern tendencies in the first years after the war.

Braunfels: String Quartet Nos. 1 - 3; String Quintet in E-Flat Major, Op. 63

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