The Raphael Ensemble
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Bridge was a star student at the RCM, and his E minor String Quintet from 1901, one of four chamber offerings he wrote at that time, reveals a burgeoning talent. Cast in four movements and lasting... —
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Completed after the First Piano Concerto, but still comparatively early works, the Sextets are typified by lush textures, ardent emotion, and wonderfully memorable melodic lines. The first is... —
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Fine, stylish performances of both these wonderful works —
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The Raphael Ensemble are superb in every respect; their performances have blazing commitment and integrity, and Hyperion's recording is in the demonstration category —
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This is quite glorious … one senses right from the opening of Bruckner’s Quintet—surely one of the finest quintets ever written, for any combination— an intensity that matches its ambitious... —
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A rarity of great charm and sincerity … a fine disc in excellent sound —
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Martinu & Schulhoff - String Sextets
played by Anthony Marwood and Sally Beamish
The Raphael Ensemble
A communist Jew in German-occupied Czechoslovakia, Schulhoff died in a Nazi concentration camp. The heart of his String Sextet, the slow movement, is superlatively played as are Martinu's two... —
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