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Ernst Rudorff (1840-1916) Chamber Music Sextett für 3 Violinen, Viola und 2 Violoncelli op. 5 Drei Romanzen op. 48 Capriccio appassionato op. 49 Sechs Klavierstücke op. 52 Concertetüden No. 1 und 2 op. 29 Romanze für Violine + Klavier op. 41

Berolina Ensemble

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MDG 948 1889-6

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Pioneer Conservationist An Echo Klassik for Hofmann, an Opus d’or for von Gorol, the ensemble’s spiritus rector, opts for Bausznern, and now for the third time the Berolina impassioned voice leading from the very beginning. Ensemble steps into the spotlight with a spectacular The second movement reflects high ambitions. After discovery – and once again we are at a loss to explain only a few measures of bright major the charmingly how it was that such magnificent works could ever be simple beginning of the theme moves into a brooding forgotten. The ensemble’s newest release is minor; simplicity and magnificence are united in the dedicated to Ernst Rudorff. His opulent String Sextet, splendid beginning of this variation movement of Romance for Violin and , and a series of symphonic dimensions! enchanting piano pieces offer extensive documentation of the chamber oeuvre of this Salon Romanticist , who also numbered among the pioneers in The concluding Romance for Violin and Piano the field of conservation. presents salon culture on the highest level. Here David Gorol dedicates his violinist’s perfection to the Remarkable Storyteller cause of a highly romantic narrative, which Viller Rudorff was on close personal terms with Clara Valbonesi has rest on orchestral sound optimally Schumann and her family; one of the Schumann supporting the singing violin in the ecstatic highest of daughters received instruction in piano from him. The the heights. All of this is experienced in finely fact that Schumann and Brahms were his models is in balanced SACD recording technology featuring particular evidence in his piano compositions. Just genuine 3-D sound – a treat not only for friends of listen to the second of the Six Piano Pieces, in which natural sound! a Schumannian agitato meets ambitious harmonies, or to the first, which recalls the narrative tone of the Heinrich Hofmann Kinderszenen. At the latest by the fourth piece of the Oktett op. 80, op. 65, collection, an entirely new tone is encountered, and in Sextett op. 25 the harmonic tension of the concluding adagio this Berolina Ensemble tone clearly points to the future. MDG 948 1808-6 (Hybrid-SACD)

Chamber Philosopher Waldemar von Bausznern The String Sextet published by the young Rudorff as Oktett, Elegie, Serenade his op. 5 begins with a sweeping gesture. David Berolina Ensemble MDG 948 1826-6 (Hybrid-SACD)

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