BRC-3393 Kreutzer Septet - Bruckner Str.Quintet

Strange bedfellows maybe – yet not that much. Kreutzer’s Septet is a fine work full of period-charm and played here by the excellent Vienna Octet, which survived during the stereo years; but the main course of this well-filled CD is the Bruckner string quintet in a formidable, pioneering Vox recording by the Philharmonic String Quintet of Vienna, formed by members of the VPO. This recording sports the longest rendition of the work’s slow movement – you will hear how much it profits treated thus majestically and poetically as here. A valuable testimony of the Viennese spirit.

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