Boston Symphony Chamber Players: The Complete RCA Album Collection
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Label: Sony
Cat No: 19439946802
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 10
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 26th August 2022
Contents
Works
Summer Music, op.31Serenade in D major for flute, violin and viola, op.25
Horn Trio in E flat major, op.40
Piano Quartet no.3 in C minor, op.60
Piano Trio no.1 in B major, op.8
Woodwind Quintet
Concertino for bassoon and string trio
Variations for 4 drums and viola
Vitebsk: study on a Jewish theme for violin, cello and piano
Duettino concertante for flute and percussion
Fantasia for string trio
Bagatelles (3) for oboe and bassoon
Kleine Kammermusik, op.24 no.2
Nonet, H374
Flute Quartet no.1 in D major, K285
Oboe Quartet in F major, K370
Piano Quartet no.1 in G minor, K478
Quintet in E flat major for piano and winds, K452
Divertimento for 9 instruments
Sextet for piano, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn, FP100
Trio for piano, oboe and bassoon, FP43
Piano Quintet in A major, D667 'The Trout' (Die Forelle)
Piano Trio no.1 in B flat major, op.99 D898
String Trio in B flat major, D471
Bachianas Brasileiras no.6
Concerto for 9 instruments, op.24
Artists
Boston Symphony Chamber PlayersClaude Frank (piano)
Richard Goode (piano)
Works
Summer Music, op.31Serenade in D major for flute, violin and viola, op.25
Horn Trio in E flat major, op.40
Piano Quartet no.3 in C minor, op.60
Piano Trio no.1 in B major, op.8
Woodwind Quintet
Concertino for bassoon and string trio
Variations for 4 drums and viola
Vitebsk: study on a Jewish theme for violin, cello and piano
Duettino concertante for flute and percussion
Fantasia for string trio
Bagatelles (3) for oboe and bassoon
Kleine Kammermusik, op.24 no.2
Nonet, H374
Flute Quartet no.1 in D major, K285
Oboe Quartet in F major, K370
Piano Quartet no.1 in G minor, K478
Quintet in E flat major for piano and winds, K452
Divertimento for 9 instruments
Sextet for piano, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn, FP100
Trio for piano, oboe and bassoon, FP43
Piano Quintet in A major, D667 'The Trout' (Die Forelle)
Piano Trio no.1 in B flat major, op.99 D898
String Trio in B flat major, D471
Bachianas Brasileiras no.6
Concerto for 9 instruments, op.24
Artists
Boston Symphony Chamber PlayersClaude Frank (piano)
Richard Goode (piano)
About
It was inevitable that the Boston Symphony – hailed as “The Aristocrat of Orchestras” in the early ‘60s by RCA Victor, its long-time record company – would spin off an ensemble from its elite roster of principals. The Boston Symphony Chamber Players were duly launched in 1964 during the Austrian conductor Erich Leinsdorf’s music directorship. Starting that October, RCA Victor recorded them regularly in Symphony Hall until the orchestra changed labels at the end of the decade. By then, ten LPs of chamber music had been issued in four critically acclaimed releases. Sony Classical is now pleased to present all these recordings for the first time on CD.
The BSO’s ensemble of first-chair players is led here by its patrician concertmaster Joseph Silverstein, one of the finest American violinists of his generation as well as a highly regarded conductor and teacher. It also features such illustrious BSO principals as oboist Ralph Gomberg, flautist Doriot Anthony Dwyer, violist Burton Fine and cellist Jules Eskin, as well as two distinguished guest artists: Claude Frank and Richard Goode sharing honours in the works with piano.
RCA Victor recorded these outstanding musicians in a wide spectrum of repertoire, and each LP release represented a judicious balance of classical and modern works, both European and American. There are also further works by Mozart, Schubert and Brahms, as well as Hindemith, Poulenc, Milhaud, Martinů and Villa-Lobos. American music is generously represented by composers such as Aaron Copland, Elliott Carter, Walter Piston and Irving Fine.
Also reissued from the original release, on a bonus disc with music examples from the performances in this collection, is Peter Ustinov in a conversation about chamber music with Erich Leinsdorf and Joseph Silverstein as well Ustinov’s own “urbane and witty survey” of the genre. The set also contains previously unreleased recordings of the Spohr Nonet and Samuel Barber’s Summer Music for wind quintet.
As High Fidelity wrote: “The pleasures set forth here by the Boston Symphony’s formidably accomplished first-chair players are not come by every day, and almost never in a collection of such range and variety … This collection clearly provides a satisfying and enlarging musical experience for anyone interested in ensemble music.”
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