Artist: Hiroaki Takenouchi, Members of Sinfonia Cymru
Album: Sterndale Bennett & Mendelssohn: Piano Sextets
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2023
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 96 kHz
Duration: 01:03:57
Total Tracks: 8
Total Size: 1,09 GB

Tracklist:

1-01. Hiroaki Takenouchi – Piano Sextet in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 8: I. Allegro moderato ma con passione (12:19)
1-02. Hiroaki Takenouchi – Piano Sextet in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 8: II. Scherzo. Quasi presto (06:12)
1-03. Hiroaki Takenouchi – Piano Sextet in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 8: III. Andante grazioso (07:59)
1-04. Hiroaki Takenouchi – Piano Sextet in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 8: IV. Finale. Allegro assai ed energico (08:55)
1-05. Hiroaki Takenouchi – Piano Sextet in D Major, Op. 110, MWV Q 16: I. Allegro vivace (11:24)
1-06. Hiroaki Takenouchi – Piano Sextet in D Major, Op. 110, MWV Q 16: II. Adagio (04:55)
1-07. Hiroaki Takenouchi – Piano Sextet in D Major, Op. 110, MWV Q 16: III. Menuetto. Agitato – Trio (02:06)
1-08. Hiroaki Takenouchi – Piano Sextet in D Major, Op. 110, MWV Q 16: IV. Allegro vivace – Allego con fuoco (10:04)

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Following on from his sumptuous recital of Schumann’s Études symphoniques with William Sterndale Bennett’s great Sonata in F minor, Japanese pianist Hiroaki Takenouchi here confronts a relatively rare chamber score by the Briton, his Sextet with piano, with that of his other great Saxon friend, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy.

Two ambitious, different, cousinly works that quickly reveal, before anything else, the decisive influence of Carl Maria von Weber on these two stars of the…