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.