Composer: August Alexander Klengel
Performer: Trio Klengel
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0417
Release: 2018
Size: 638 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Divertissement, Op. 6
01. No. 2. Romance in A Major
02. Fantaisie sur un thème russe in A Minor, Op. 25
Romances sentimentales de caractère mélancolique, passionné et calme, Op. 34
03. I. Andante melancolico
04. II. Andante placido
05. III. Larghetto amoroso e passionato
06. Air suisse avec variations in B-Flat Major, Op. 32
6 Nocturnes, Op. 23
07. No. 5 in F Minor
Grand trio concertant in C Minor, Op. 36
08. I. Largo – Allegro non troppo ma con fuoco
09. II. Andante con moto
10. III. Scherzo – Molto allegro
11. IV. Finale: Allegro con moto
To the extent that he is remembered at all, the Dresden-born August Alexander Klengel (1783–1852) retains a toe-hold in music history thanks to a monumental set of 48 canon and fugues. But he was an important early-Romantic composer and celebrated piano virtuoso. August Alexander Klengel enjoyed a reputation that stretched from St Petersburg to London; indeed, he lived in both cities for a while, although later returning to his native Dresden. This first recording of his piano and chamber music reveals a personality with a strong lyrical impulse, somewhere between Field, almost certainly an acquaintance during Klengel’s five years in the Russian capital, and Mendelssohn and Chopin, who were personal friends. The principle task of the Trio Klengel founded in 2016 is to perform rare and forgotten chamber music. It takes its name from a trio founded a century ago by three daughters of the cellist Julius Klengel (Julius Röntgen’s father-in-law), who was distantly related to August Alexander Klengel. This Trio Klengel consists of Keiko Yamaguchi (violin), Stefania Verità (cello) and Anna Petrova-Forster (piano).