Chamber Music for Bassoon and Strings
Krommer - Hummel
Island
Label : Ars Produktion
Artikelnummer: ARS 38 040
1 SACD Hybrid Spielzeit : 064:42
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Island is a period-instrument ensemble that specializes in music for bassoon, two violas, and cello - not as obscure a combination as you might expect. The two quartets on this disc by Franz Krommer (1759-1831), a woodwind specialist, deploy the ensemble very effectively. The better-known Johann Nepomuk Hummel wrote a fairly popular bassoon concerto, but that reed instrument is absent from the trio at hand; the unusual two-viola plus cello scoring seems to be authentic.