Hans Pfitzner - "Sextett" for Clarinet, Violin, Viola, Cello, Double Bass and Piano, Op.55 (1945)

Hans Pfitzner - "Sextett" for Clarinet, Violin, Viola, Cello, Double Bass and Piano, Op.55 (1945)

Hans Erich Pfitzner (5 May 1869 – 22 May 1949) was a German composer, conductor and polemicist who was a self-described anti-modernist. His best known work is the post-Romantic opera Palestrina (1917), loosely based on the life of the sixteenth-century composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina and his Missa Papae Marcelli.

I.Allegro con passione - 0:00
II.Quasi minuetto - 5:58
III.Rondoletto.Allegretto - 10:36
IV.Semplice, misterioso - 14:24
V.Comodo - 22:05

Clarinet: Wolfgang Meyer
Violin: Ulf Hoelscher
Viola: Roland Glassl
Cello: Gustav Rivinius
Double Bass: Christoph Schmidt
Piano: Ian Fountain







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