Ensemble Arabesques - Gustav Holst: Kammermusik (2017) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist
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01. Quintet in A Minor, Op. 3: I. Allegro moderato
02. Quintet in A Minor, Op. 3: II. Scherzo: Allegro vivace
03. Quintet in A Minor, Op. 3: III. Adagio: Poco animato-Più mosso-Tempo I
04. Quintet in A Minor, Op. 3: IV. Allegro con brio
05. 3 Pieces (revised version of Op. 2): No. 1. March
06. 3 Pieces (revised version of Op. 2): No. 2. Minuet
07. 3 Pieces (revised version of Op. 2): No. 3. Scherzo
08. Terzetto: I. Allegretto
09. Terzetto: II. Un poco vivace
10. Wind Quintet in A-Flat Major, Op. 14: I. Allegro moderato
11. Wind Quintet in A-Flat Major, Op. 14: II. Adagio
12. Wind Quintet in A-Flat Major, Op. 14: III. Minuet (in Canon)-Trio
13. Wind Quintet in A-Flat Major, Op. 14: IV. Air and Variations
14. Sextet in E Minor: I. Moderato
15. Sextet in E Minor: II. Scherzo-Allegro vivace
16. Sextet in E Minor: III. Adagio
17. Sextet in E Minor: IV. Thema-Allegretto

The English composer Gustav Holst is known to many music lovers for just one symphonic work: The Planets. This orchestral suite, first performed in its entirety in 1920, was certainly his greatest success during his lifetime, but it reflects only one small aspect of the composer and his intellectual world.

Holst's chamber-music works, full of consummate grace and still written in the late-romantic vein, prove that his work deserves much greater attention.

The Sextet in E Minor from 1900 for mixed strings and woodwinds, which is recorded here for the first time, fills a gap in the repertoire.

It was not until the start of our century that Helge Bartholomäus unearthed this work, composed towards the end of Holst's student days, in the British Library archives and published it. The sextet has something of the lightness of a serenade, and in many passages sounds like a double trio for woodwinds and strings. A true find!

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