Bernhard Päuler

In addition to subtle works for the viola, Naumann wrote a series of chamber music of classical character, 'highly praised' by Robert Schumann, which is always exquisite and perfect in form, and which...

Fiala's works, schooled in Haydn, offer melodic sweetness, clean movement with fine dynamic shading, as may be audibly recreated in our viola quartet, bathed in a 'deeper warm tonal language'.

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Joseph Haydn's only string quintet with 2 violas is a musical delicacy of the best provenance. The concise movements shine with capricious interplay and melodic sweetness between violins and violas in...

Bazzini's 5 quartets, written in classical formal rigor and coupled with the romanticizing 'Italianita', still indulge in virtuoso attitude, with modest technical playing requirements.

First Edition

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First Edition

This 9th quartet deserves the crown: the mixture of dramatic attiude and enchanting melodic violin to the point of sentimentality serves the bel canto in an inimitable way. Predestined for the prelude...

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Edited from the first edition.

The F-major work captivates the listener with a perfectly formed mixture of a stirring movement set in a stylistically confident manner and the opera composer's great art of exploiting cantabile to th...

In Bergamo, his native city, where Donizetti learned to admire the masterpieces of the Viennese classics as a 'violist', it required him to emulate the style of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, which he s...

First Edition

First Edition

Edited from the first Edition.

Edited from the First Edition.

Edited from the First Edition

The quintet is a contrapuntal cabinet piece of the finest quality. The technically less demanding work is also excellently suited for string orchestra. Effective!

While in the 1st movement surprising modulations characterize the playing dominated by the 1st violin, in the slow movement the very colorfully harmonized lyrical melodicism surprises, while in the bu...

Edited from the undated first print of the parts from c. 1835.

Edited from the First Edition.

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