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Grieg: String Quartet No. 1, Svendsen: String Octet - Kocian Quartet

Grieg: String Quartet No. 1, Svendsen: String Octet - Kocian Quartet

Praga Digitals  PRD/DSD 250 274

Stereo/Multichannel Hybrid

Classical - Chamber


Grieg: String Quartet No. 1 in G minor Op. 27, Svendsen: String Octet in A major Op. 3

Kocian Quartet
M. Nostitz Quartet


An original pairing of composers who were compatriots and friends and who imposed on the international level the Romantic Norwegian school in Europe in the years 1872-1900. Grieg’s career as a pianist was more modest then Svendsen the violinist’s, and the latter also outshone him as a conductor, imposing his own compositions (symphonies, Norwegian Rhapsodies…) along with Beethoven, Mendelssohn… and Wagner in Europe. A century later, the audience of the composer of Peer Gynt is universal, whereas Svendsen’s oeuvre remains confined to Scandinavian concert halls. This is the first modern recording of his Octet, a youthful score enlivened by its borrowings from folklore and imperious as to the application of the rules of the Leipzig school, which provided his education. A juxtaposition of names that was self-evident more than a century ago!

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