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Othmar Müller, Martin Kerschbaum, Catherine Klipfel, Niek de Groot, Eszter Haffner, Morgenstern Trio – Alfred Huber: Chamber Music (2022)
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Chamber music expressing the most intimate – in Alfred Huber’s music the creative will of a subject pushes outwards, thoughts and feelings become music. The listener is left agitated and delighted by the power of sound.
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Niek de Groot – French Connection (2023)
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Dutch double bassist Niek de Groot is one of today’s leading soloists on his instrument. Originally a trumpet-player he started playing the double-bass at 18. Within an unusually short time he became principal bass with several European ensembles, including a 10-year tenure as principal Solo-Bass with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
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Minna Pensola, Antti Tikkanen, Tuomas Lehto, Niek de Groot – Rossini: String Sonatas Nos. 4-6 – Hoffmeister: Solo Quartets Nos. 3 & 4 (2019)
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This second and last volume completes two different sets of string quartets: the four so-called Solo Quartets by Franz Anton Hoffmeister and Gioachino Rossini’s six String Sonatas (or Sonate a quattro). Both sets differ from the ‘normal’ configuration in that they allow a double bass to take part, albeit in different roles. Rossini, who composed his sonatas at the age of 12 (!), left out the viola and gave the double bass a more or less conventional bass role – apart from the occasional virtuosic outburst. The sonatas were first published in an arrangement for traditional string quartet and are often heard performed by string orchestras.
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Viktoriia Vitrenko, David Grimal, Luigi Gaggero & Niek de Groot – György Kurtág: Scenes (Scenes from a Novel, Op. 19, Eight Duos for Violin and Cimbalom, Op. 4, Seven Songs, Op. 22, In memory of a Winter evening, Op. 8, Several Movements from Georg Christoph Lichtenberg’s Sudelbücher ‘Scrapbooks’, Op. 37a & Hommage à Be (2019)
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In the history of music, György Kurtág is a figure apart. Born in Hungary in 1926, he stood aside from the great ideological movements of his time and created his own personal language in solitude, thinking of music as he put it, “as an ongoing search”. But while doggedly independent, he was also a man of culture whose language developed in the shadow of two great teachers: Bartók and Beethoven, the former following on largely from the latter. A champion of the small form, Kurtág also drew inspiration (when he wasn’t revisiting them explicitly) from Bach, Schubert and Schumann.
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