Composer: Sir Charles Villiers Stanford
Performer: Nikolaus Resa, Daniel Ember, Christoph Körn, Anne Feltz, Brigitte Draganov, Alejandro Regueira Caumel, Georg Boge
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Capriccio
Release: 2021
Size: 255 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Quintet in D Minor, Op. 25
01. I. Allegro moderato ma agitato
02. II. Scherzo
03. III. Adagio espressivo
04. IV. Allegro risoluto
05. Fantasy in A Minor
06. Fantasy No. 2 in F Major
Nowadays Stanford’s fame is largely based on his teaching activities in London, while his reputation as a ‘great composer’ has waned considerably. His students included renowned composers such as Gustav Holst, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Arthur Bliss, Frank Bridge and many others who helped shape England‘s classical music scene at the turn of the 20th century. His oeuvre covered a wide variety of sacred and secular music and his works carry within them elements of Irish folklore and mysticism. Many of his chamber works have a definite air of Brahms about them, never by way of direct quotation or paraphrase, but by making Brahms’ style his own.