Luigi Boccherini: Quintettes Avec Contrebasse
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Composer: Luigi BoccheriniPerformer: Ensemble 415
Edition: Music CD
Format: Import, Original recording reissued
CD Release Date: 2000-11-14
Music Label: Harmonia Mundi Fr.
Soundtracks:
- Andante lento
- Allegro vivo - Tempo di minuetto - Grave - Allegro vivo
- Rondeau. Allegro non tanto - Minuetto - Rondeau
- No. 1, Allegro vivo ma non presto
- No. 2, Adagio ma non tanto
- No. 3, Minuetto (trio)
- No. 4, Finale. Allegro vivo ma non presto
- No. 1, Allegro vivo
- No. 2, Pastorale amoroso ma non lento
- No. 3, Finale. Presto
- No. 1, Presto
- No. 2, Tempo di Minuetto (trio)
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Free Music Review: Deep, Wistful, Strong, Icy, Warm, Delicate, Rich, Forlorn, Sumptuous. . .
Hit: 5 Stars
Wow! I wholeheartedly agree with the other reviewer's enthusiasm about this album. These three Bass Quintets are well worth the purchase of this disk, perhaps even if you don't like "classical" music. The entire string spectrum is intertwined from violin to double bass and the results are simply sumptuous!
The highlights here are as follows:
The first quintet doesn't draw its strength nearly as much from the beauty of its themes (especially the beauty of its Rendeau) as from the alternations between joy and introspection, fast and slow. This keeps things very interesting throughout.
The second quintet sets you up to think its a carefree, almost silly piece by its opening movement. You couldn't be more wrong! Its Adagio is as gorgeous and delicate as a butterfly emerging slowly from a chrysalis and letting its wings take shape. Utterly enrapturing and enchanting. You'll definitely stop what you're doing and just sit with eyes closed - listening. It has a feel akin to the Largo from Vivaldi's "Winter." The closing Finale warms things up again just right.
My favorite of all is #3. From its opening bars it is pure gold. The entire quintet is warm, regal, and inviting, like a joy-filled room with a warm fireplace. The main theme of the Allegro is one of those "quintessential" sounding melodies that you're sure to spontaneously hum to. It has a very catchy charm. The solo passages are performed on either the cello or the bass (or alternately both as my ear isn't that tuned yet) as if it is a violin and are summed up on the instrument by the richest ties I've heard. Its Pastorale lulls you with its reassuring ease and gentle genius before the Finale gets you back on your feet, romping around the room.
This disk ends with a curious little quartet called "La Tirana," the name of which is open to speculation, the loveableness of which is not.
In all this is a HIGHLY "worth it" album!
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