Composer: Ferdinand Thieriot
Performer: Hamburg Chamber Players
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0080
Release: 2010
Size: 353 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Piano Quintet in D major, Op. 20
01. I. Allegro con spirito
02. II. Adagio
03. III. Scherzo
04. IV. Allegro con moto
Theme and Variations, Op. 29
05. Theme
06. Variation 1
07. Variation 2
08. Variation 3
09. Variation 4
10. Variation 5
11. Variation 6
12. Variation 7
13. Variation 8
14. Variation 9
15. Variation 10
16. Variation 11
17. Variation 12
String Sextet in D major
18. I. Allegro non troppo
19. II. Intermezzo
20. III. Adagio non troppo
21. IV. Allegro vivace
This is the first of a series of recordings that the Hamburg Chamber Players will be making for Toccata Classics, focussing on chamber music by neglected German Romantics.
Ferdinand Thieriot (1836–1919) was, like Johannes Brahms, a student of Eduard Marxsen in Hamburg.
Brahms remained a friend in later years – and indeed Thieriot’s music has a Brahmsian warmth and richness and overflows with memorable melodies.
Thieriot’s music, the chamber works especially, was popular during his own lifetime but since his death in 1919 it has been totally forgotten – not least because the archives containing his manuscripts were taken to Leningrad after the Second World War.
There the String Sextet was one of a number of manuscripts found floating in a flooded basement – it was lucky to survive.
All three works here – the Piano Quintet, String Sextet and Theme and Variations for the unusual combination of two cellos and piano – are receiving their first recordings.