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Mendelssohn: Octet in E flat major, Op. 20; Bruch: Octet in B flat major.(Sound recording review)
Mendelssohn: Octet in E flat major, Op. 20; Bruch: Octet in B flat major. Kodaly Quartet, Auer Quartet. Naxos 8.557270.
Like so many musical geniuses, Felix Mendelssohn was a child prodigy, producing his famous Octet at the age of sixteen. It's filled with the youthful high spirts we would expect, yet it's also got the captivating magic and maturity so eloquently and zestfully displayed in his overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream, which he wrote around the same time in 1825.
Coupled with the Mendelssohn Octet is Max Bruch's Octet, composed in the year of Bruch's death, 1920. Bruch's music was something of a throwback to the traditional music of the nineteenth century, so it is no surprise that his Octet should owe so much to Mendelssohn's work of almost a hundred years earlier. Both pieces are romantic, flowery, exuberant, flamboyant, lyrical, with moments of serenity and repose amidst dashing elan. It's interesting to note, too, that Bruch's music was pretty much ...
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