
What an outstanding release! Pavel Haas was one of the many Czech/Jewish composers interned by the Nazis at the Terezin concentration camp before being sent
It’s hard to imagine music that gives more sheer listening pleasure than Haydn’s quartets, and these three rank among his best. The Kocian Quartet also
Antonin Reicha’s music continues to inhabit the fringes of the active repertoire of everyone except perhaps wind quintets, which is a pity. Certainly Reicha was
It’s an understatement to say that Ernest Bloch’s chamber music, especially concerted works such as his String Quartets and these Piano Quintets, has been under-recorded.
Aside from Scheherazade and a few orchestral showpieces, most of Rimsky-Korsakov’s works are unknown territory for Western music lovers. This well-played program featuring a pair