Kuhlau – Piano Quartets (2014)

Fridrich Kuhlau – Piano Quartets no.1 & no.2

Copenhagen Piano Quartet (Beneditke Damgaard – violin, Kristina Fialova – viola, Adam Stadnicki – cello, Neel Teilmann – piano)

Friedrich Kuhlau was the most cosmopolitan personality in Danish music at the beginning of the 19th century. A creative, forward-looking and extremely productive composer, he rarely let his pen lie idle. The two piano quartets recorded on this CD by the young Copenhagen Piano Quartet are major works from the composer’s most artistically fertile decade, besides testifying to Kuhlau’s own brilliance as a pianist.

Recenze

"What we have here are two pieces of very high quality music with melody and energy. The recordings are spacious and detailed with the piano placed behind the strings and with the ambience of the acoustically excellent, and rather beautiful, DKDM Concert Hall subtly present."

Dave Billinge, MusicWeb International

"Let’s have the Third Quartet and some more Kuhlau from these fine young Danish musicians"

Jeremy Nicholas, Gramophone

KOUPIT

"…Milovníci temného, sametového zvuku violy si vychutnají tuto skvělou nahrávku královny české violy Kristiny Fialové …"

Klassik

"Kristina Fialová nepochybně patří mezi nejlepší světové violistky, v Ostravě o tom podala jasnou, aktuální a nezapomenutelnou zprávu."

Klasika Plus

"Bodorová writes a rustic dance that allows Fialová’s virtuosity to shine."

Fanfare magazine