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Schmidt: Quintet in A Major for Piano Left Hand
Franz Schmidt

Christopher Ayer

Schmidt: Quintet in A Major for Piano Left Hand

Price: € 14.95
Format: CD
Label: Centaur Records, Inc.
UPC: 0044747347226
Catnr: CRC 3472
Release date: 07 September 2018
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Centaur Records, Inc.
UPC
0044747347226
Catalogue number
CRC 3472
Release date
07 September 2018

"Franz Schmidt "Quintet in A major for Piano left-hand" on the label Centaur Records. A discovery."

Stretto, 19-9-2018
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Franz Schmidt (1874 – 1939) composed this huge chamber work (over 69 minutes in length in this recording!) for Piano left-hand, Clarinet, Violin, Viola, and Cello. This is truly a hidden masterpiece.

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Franz Schmidt

With his correct value judgement about the ‘music worker’ Mahler at his debut as director of the Viennese Court Opera, Franz Schmidt, who worked there as a cellist at the time, proved his right, future-oriented insight; with his tear-jerker for string orchestra, the intermezzo from the opera Notre Dame, he gained a reputation which unfortunately overshadows the rest of his oeuvre. In everyday language, it is remarked that a certain performance is a ‘revelation’. A Bible book is also called revelation – that of John. Schmidt has incorporated it in his oratorio Das Buch mit den sieben Siegeln. This late romantic work has its charming side thanks to a mix of archaic fugues and refined orchestration. The fact that Schmidt was a...
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With his correct value judgement about the ‘music worker’ Mahler at his debut as director of the Viennese Court Opera, Franz Schmidt, who worked there as a cellist at the time, proved his right, future-oriented insight; with his tear-jerker for string orchestra, the intermezzo from the opera Notre Dame, he gained a reputation which unfortunately overshadows the rest of his oeuvre.
In everyday language, it is remarked that a certain performance is a ‘revelation’. A Bible book is also called revelation – that of John. Schmidt has incorporated it in his oratorio Das Buch mit den sieben Siegeln. This late romantic work has its charming side thanks to a mix of archaic fugues and refined orchestration.
The fact that Schmidt was a student of Bruckner can be heard in his best known symphony, the fourth. When performed well, it is certainly a significant work on its own terms.
(Source: Musicalifeiten.nl)
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Franz Schmidt "Quintet in A major for Piano left-hand" on the label Centaur Records. A discovery.
Stretto, 19-9-2018

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