Reicha Musique De Chambre CD

The fruitful partnership between the Alpha label, the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel and the Palazzetto Bru Zane continues with this set of chamber music by Anton Reicha, performed by the musicians of the Chapel, young talents of an exceptionally high standard, ready and willing to take up the challenge of this music. A key figure of the early nineteenth century, this Czech composer who became a naturalised French citizen did not leave his contemporaries indifferent. Both his music and his theoretical writings set zealous partisans against fierce detractors. This three-part album, assembling pieces from different genres and periods, gives an insight into the richness of the composer's extremely prolific output of chamber music, whose originality can still fascinate us nearly two centuries after his death: it illustrates the diversity of the instrumental genres he tackled (sonatas, fugues, ?tudes and variations for piano; piano trio, string quartet, string quintet) and a compositional art characterised at once by perfect mastery - as one would expect from someone trained by Haydn in Vienna between 1802 and 1808 - and by the greatest originality.

1. I. Allegro Moderato - Quatuor Girard 2. II. Poco Andante - Quatuor Girard 3. III. Minuetto. Allegretto - Quatuor Girard 4. IV. Finale. Allegretto - Quatuor Girard 5. I. Allegretto Poco Andante - Tanguy Parisot/Quatuor Girard 6. II. Allegro Minueto. Allegro Assai - Tanguy Parisot/Quatuor Girard 7. III. Andante Poco Lento - Tanguy Parisot/Quatuor Girard 8. IV. Finale. Allegro Vivace Assai - Tanguy Parisot/Quatuor Girard 9. I. Allegro - Josquin Otal 10. II. Romance. Largo - Josquin Otal 11. III. Presto - Josquin Otal 12. ?tude No. 29, Op. 97, 'L'enharmonique' - Josquin Otal 13. Andante Maestoso - Josquin Otal 14. Andante. Theme - Victoria Vassilenko 15. Variation 1 - Victoria Vassilenko 16. Variation 2 - Victoria Vassilenko 17. Variation 3 - Victoria Vassilenko 18. Variation 4 - Victoria Vassilenko 19. Menuetto - Victoria Vassilenko 20. Finale. Allegretto Scherzando - Victoria Vassilenko 21. Fugue No. 9, 'Cercle Harmonique' - Dorde Radevski 22. Theme - Dorde Radevski 23. Variation 1. Con Pi? Moto - Dorde Radevski 24. Variation 3 - Dorde Radevski 25. Variation 4 - Dorde Radevski 26. Variation 6 - Dorde Radevski 27. Variation 7 - Dorde Radevski 28. Variation 8 - Dorde Radevski 29. Variation 12 - Dorde Radevski 30. Variation 13. Adagio - Dorde Radevski 31. Coda. Allegro Assai - Dorde Radevski 32. I. Allegro Non Troppo - Trio Medici 33. II. Minuetto. Allegro - Trio Medici 34. III. Andantino - Trio Medici 35. IV. Finale. Allegro Assai - Trio Medici 36. I. (Allegretto) - Various Performers 37. II. Andante - Various Performers 38. III. Minuetto - Various Performers 39. IV. Finale. Lento Un Poco Andante - Allegro - Various Performers