Hans Gál: Chamber Music, Volume Three
These five works, from three different stages of Hans Gál’s long life (1890–1987), all show his consummate craftsmanship but are otherwise quite different in character. The passionate Piano Quartet (1914), downstream from Brahms and Dvořák, brings the grand gestures of Romanticism into the early twentieth century. The 1935 Sonatina in F major for violin and piano, recently rediscovered, and the three Sonatinas from 1956 put a premium on textural clarity and lyrical approachability; here the contrapuntal ingenuity, ceaseless thematic development, harmonic freedom and rhythmic unpredictability of Gál’s language animate the music from within.
Katalin Kertész, violin
Nichola Blakey, (viola 1 – 4)
Cressida Nash, (cello 1 – 4)
Sarah Beth Briggs, piano
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Piano Quartet in B flat major, Op. 13 (1914)
- Piano Quartet in B flat major, Op. 13: I Allegro energico un poco sostenuto
- Piano Quartet in B flat major, Op. 13: II Andante con moto
- Piano Quartet in B flat major, Op. 13: III Agitato
- Piano Quartet in B flat major, Op. 13: IV Allegro vivace
- Sonatina in G major, Op. 71, No. 1: I Allegretto
- Sonatina in G major, Op. 71, No. 1: II Tema con variazioni
- Sonatina in B flat major, Op. 71, No. 2: I Allegro
- Sonatina in B flat major, Op. 71, No. 2: II Cavatina
- Sonatina in B flat major, Op. 71, No. 2: III Alla Marcia
- Sonatina in F major, Op. 71, No. 3: I Andantino
- Sonatina in F major, Op. 71, No. 3:II Alla serenata
- Sonatina in F major, Op. 71, No. 3:III Rondo
- Sonatina in F major: I Allegro moderato
- Sonatina in F major: II Lento cantabile
- Sonatina in F major: III Allegretto giocoso
Three Sonatinas for violin and piano, Op. 71 (1956)
Sonatina in F major (1934)
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