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Tuesday, November 7, 2017

Julius Röntgen - Chamber Music (ARC Ensemble)


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Composer: Julius Röntgen
  • (01-04) Quintet for Piano and Strings in A minor, Op. 100
  • (05-07) Trio for Clarinet, Viola and Piano in E flat major
  • (08-11) Sonata for Viola and Piano in C minor
  • (12-15) Sextet in G major

ARC Ensemble
Joaquin Valdepeñas, clarinet
Erika Raum, violin
Marie Bérard, violin
Steven Dann, viola
Yosef Tamir, viola
David Hetherington, cello
Bryan Epperson, cello
David Louie, piano
Dianne Werner, piano

Date: 2007
Label: RCA


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Review

A Röntgen revival? This excellent chamber disc could be the starter

A composer who did not shape history but was shaped by it, Leipzig-born Julius Röntgen (1855-1932) is familiar today through occasional airings of his completion of the String Quartet in F by Grieg (whose eulogy spawned the title of this disc), yet he exerted a keen influence on Dutch musical life in the early 20th century. These four works were written over a decade (1921-31) and find the composer allying his formidable technique to a reticent yet never impersonal expression. The Piano Quintet is a fine example of his mature idiom: the restrained anxiety of its Andante followed by a vigorous Scherzo, then an austere Lento that serves as introduction to a wide-ranging finale which brings the work full-circle. Reger is evident in its harmonic richness, whereas the Clarinet Trio is indebted to Brahms in its autumnal hues and also in the cunning motivic connections between its three movements. The Viola Sonata has a rather greater emotional range - proceeding from a charged Allegro to a haunting Andante, then a quixotic Scherzo and a finale whose chromatic inflections are redolent of early Schoenberg. The String Sextet is the latest piece, with its middle movements - a suave intermezzo and an often fervent sequence of variations - being a particularly significant contribution to a surprisingly neglected genre.

Superb performances by Canada's ARC Ensemble, in an ideal chamber acoustic, make this disc an evident pleasure. “Right Through the Bone” his music's impact may not be, but Röntgen is a figure worthy of revival.

-- Richard Whitehouse, Gramophone

More reviews:
http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2008/June08/Rontgen_bone_88697158372.htm
https://www.thestrad.com/right-through-the-bone-r%C3%B6ntgen-piano-quintet-in-a-minor-op100-viola-sonata-in-c-minor-sextet-in-g-major-trio-in-e-flat-major-for-clarinet-viola-and-piano/4584.article
https://www.allmusic.com/album/right-through-the-bone-mw0001869343
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Right-Through-Bone-Chamber-R%C3%B6ntgen/dp/B000W1V4AM

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Julius Röntgen (9 May 1855 – 13 September 1932) was a German-Dutch composer of classical music. Born a gifted child in Leipzig, Röntgen's first piano teacher was Carl Reinecke. He move to Amsterdam in 1877, and became a naturalized Dutch citizen in 1919. Röntgen's works include 25 symphonies, concertos (7 piano concertos, 3 violin concertos, 3 cello concertos, other concertos), as well as numerous chamber, piano and vocal works. He also completed Grieg's unfinished String Quartet No. 2. Röntgen also harmonized and arranged traditional Dutch melodies used as hymn tunes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_R%C3%B6ntgen

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The ARC (Artists of the Royal Conservatory) Ensemble is a group group led by Simon Wynberg and made up of faculty members of the Glenn Gould School at the Royal Conservatory of Music. The ensemble was founded in 2002 to showcase the considerable pool of talent resident at the Glenn Gould School. They are singularly devoted to reviving unjustly neglected repertoire: music of marginalized historical figures of music such as Mieczyslaw Weinberg, Julius Röntgen, Philipp Jarnach, and Alexandre Tansman; and the lesser-known legacies of well-known composers such as Richard Strauss and Johannes Brahms.
https://www.allmusic.com/artist/arc-ensemble-mn0001701400
http://www.arcensemble.com/

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