String Quintet - Capriccio Sextet
Bruckner - Strauss
The Raphael Ensemble
Label : Helios (Hyperion Records)
Artikelnummer: CDH55372
1 CD
CHF 13.50
Finished in 1879, the Quintet is thus a mature work by a composer who had already written - and in the case of the Fourth and Fifth, revised - five symphonies. There is a always a richness of sonority and harmony in this music which has given rise to the cliché that Bruckner's idiom is too dense and orchestral, an accusation hardly borne out by the delicacy of some passages - Ralph Moore