Composer: Reynaldo Hahn
Performer: Karim Sulayman, Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Chandos
Catalogue: CHAN20326
Release: 2025
Size: 1.1 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Piano Quintet in F sharp minor
01. À Chloris
02. Quand je fus pris au pavillon
Piano Quintet in F sharp minor
03. I. Molto agitato e con fuoco
04. II. Andante (non troppo lento)
05. III. Allegretto grazioso
06. Le rossignol des lilas
07. Chanson d’automne
08. L’Enamourée
Quartet in G Major for Violin, Viola, Cello & Piano in G Major
09. I. Allegretto moderato
10. II. [Sérénade.] Allegro assai
11. III. Andante
12. IV. Allegro assai
13. La barcheta
The Lebanese-American Karim Sulayman joins the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective for this album of works by Reynaldo Hahn. The founder members Tom Poster and Elena Urioste write: ‘Kaleidoscope has championed many unjustly neglected composers, but in the case of Reynaldo Hahn the neglect seems particularly puzzling to us. His music is immediately approachable, soaringly beautiful, and speaks directly to the heart; audiences, on the rare occasions that they get to hear it, seem to adore it. His life story is fascinating, too… The Piano Quintet had been on our programming wish list for some time: it was lauded as Hahn’s greatest work at its 1922 premiere, and the powerful intensity of its first two movements in particular acts as a firm rejoinder to those who criticised Hahn as a lightweight salon composer. By the time he finished his Piano Quartet, in 1946, Hahn was a man out of place in the world; this is music which bears no trace of modernism, instead looking back nostalgically to Hahn’s heyday in la belle epoque’.
