Composer: Anton Reicha
Performer: Kreutzer Quartet
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0022
Release: 2013
Size: 290 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
String Quartet in C major, Op. 48, No. 1
01. I. Allegro non troppo
02. II. Adagio
03. III. Menuetto. Allegro
04. IV. Finale. Presto
String Quartet in G major, Op. 48, No. 2
05. I. Allegro
06. II. Adagio un poco andante
07. III. Menuetto. Allegro
08. IV. Finale. Allegretto
The Czech-born composer Anton Reicha (1770–1836) was an exact contemporary of Beethoven – and his close friend from their mid-teens. The music of each man shows an awareness of what the other was doing: they showed each other their compositions-in-progress. But although Reicha was closely associated with one of the best-known names in western culture, his own music has been grievously neglected: only his woodwind quintets have achieved any currency. Of his vast cycle of almost forty string quartets just one has been recorded before – an omission this ambitious project intends to put right, thereby revealing one of the most inventive and engaging spirits in classical music.