Composer: Josef Labor
Performer: Nina Karmon, Floris Mijnders, Přemysl Vojta, Oliver Triendl
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Capriccio
Release: 2021
Size: 222 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Cello Sonata in A Major, Op. 7
01. I. Allegro
02. II. Scherzo. Allegro molto
03. III. Quasi andante
04. IV. Allegro con spirito
05. Theme & Variations for Horn & Piano, Op. 10
Violin Sonata in D Minor, Op. 5
06.I. Allegro ma non troppo
07.II. Adagio ma non troppo
08.III. Tempo di menuetto – Quasi Sicilienne
09.IV. Quasi improvisato
The positive response to Capriccio’s first recording of his Piano Quartet and Piano Quintet has enabled this series to be continued now with three works representative of Labor’s oeuvre from the early 1890s. In Vienna, Labor was part of Johannes Brahms’s close circle of friends. Brahms particularly valued his composer colleagues who went their own way without copying him. Labor’s music is very skillfully composed, always sensuous, and first and foremost melodious; it does not require a too complete concentration on itself. A total of around eighty compositions have survived. Among them are practically no occasional works, which is connected to the fact that he was blind: for him composition was a luxury, insofar as he had to rely on the help of a scribe who had to commit the work to paper.