Composer: Friedrich Dotzauer
Performer: Ensemble Pyramide
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0421
Release: 2018
Size: 1.22 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Flute Quartet No. 3 in E Major, Op. 57
01. I. Allegro
02. II. Andante
03. III. Scherzo
04. IV. Finale: Allegro
Oboe Quartet in F Major, Op. 37
05. I. Allegro
06. II. Andantino
07. III. Menuetto
08. IV. Rondo: Allegro
Flute Quartet in A Minor, Op. 38
09. I. Allegro con espressione
10. II. Poco adagio
11. III. Allegro
The cellist-composer Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer (1783–1860), an orchestral musician in Dresden and Leipzig as well as an important soloist and teacher, is best remembered for the music he wrote for his own instrument: the studies of his Violoncellschule are still in use today. But the prolific Dotzauer wrote much else, and his generous output of chamber music includes a handful of good-natured quartets for solo wind instruments and strings. They share an elegant late-Classical manner, with echoes of Mozart and Haydn, but their poise and charm can disguise fearsome technical demands and occasional harmonic boldness.