Music for wind instruments

"Recording of the month: This youthful Czech ensemble is continuing a great tradition ... Pliantly expressive reeds, fresh, pure flute sound, and creamy horn tone with just a tasteful hint of vibrato. All those characteristics are present in the playing of the Belfiato Quintet ... All five players produce many moments of wonderful musicianship, and they give us here three works of real quality".

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"The three works here were composed over a two-decade span by a brace of Moravians ... Foerster's Wind Quintet, one of his most celebrated chamber pieces, dates from 1909 and was composed when he was living in Vienna ... The writing is echt-Romantic, fulsome and frolicsome, melodic and colourful ... Haas's 1929 Quintet announces its own lineage almost immediately ... Given that the performances by the young members of the Belfiato Quintet are so fine, the recording so sympathetic and the booklet so attractive ... this disc offers pure unadulterated pleasure".

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