Oliver Triendl, piano - Marina Chiche, violin - Peijun Xu, viola -

Niklas Schmidt, cello - Matthias Beltinger, double bass

Starting a new chamber music CD series!

This Coproduction of TYXart and the new Joachim Wollenweber Edition refocuses the publics attention on forgotten composers of the classical and romantic periods.
New sheet music editions are created in collaboration with top artists, musicologists and radio stations, with CD recordings being published at the same time.
The works by Hermann Goetz (1840-1876) recorded here launch this series and enrich the chamber music literature by two substantial and highly romantic masterpieces.
The great artists Marina Chiche, Peijun Xu, Niklas Schmidt, Matthias Beltinger and Oliver Triendl bring this chamber music to the stage with exciting performance.

The piano quartet in E major, created in the fall of 1867 and dedicated to Johannes Brahms, isconsidered the masterpiece of the composer. The first movement bears the title "Quick and spirited." The tempo is limited, the fire blazes mostly in a restrained manner, yet intensely. The yearning main theme is being continuously spun on, all secondary motives are at its service. More dramatic accents of the piano are woven into the flowing voices of the strings. In the second, slower movement, a melancholy minor veil drapes over the artfully set-up variations. Of course, Goetz had studied his Beethoven, Schumann and Mendelssohn and certainly knew the early chamber music by Brahms, yet despite all following in form, he finds a unique beauty of the sound that dawns and glows and is all his own. The second of the five variations changes into a dance-like major, the third surprises ...
"And when man in his anguish falls silent, a god told me to say what I am suffering," Hermann Goetz wrote in 1874 as moto over his piano quintet in c minor, which was only printed after 1878 as op. 16 - the opus numbers in Goetz's oeuvre say little about the chronology of the creation and a lot about the publishing dates. The deeply moving piece can be seen as the requiem of a highly sensitive artist for himself, even though music always also has an absolute quality. Goetz used the instrumentation of Schubert's "Trout Quintet" for the quintet, i.e. piano and all four string instruments including double bass. Some commentators see the fact that violin and viola on the one hand and cello and bass on the other hand are often playing in octaves as a problem. However, it is precisely this which causes an alarming and dark atmosphere, which could have something to do not only with the illness of the composer, but also with his studies of Dante's "Divine Comedy" for the opera. The stirring, fateful main theme of the passionate opening movement ...
(text extract of the CD booklet by Gottfried Franz Kasparek)

A Coproduction of the Joachim Wollenweber Edition, Deutschlandradio Kultur Berlin and TYXart.

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