Reicha! (Random Reviews from the Overflow Room)
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- Aside from inventing the woodwind quintet and being a friend of Beethoven, Reicha had one of the most interesting, experimental musical minds of his era. His music is quirky and often highly original, and it deserves to be much better known.
I'm glad you got to this interesting guy. His bio is quite impressive, with a number of great composers among his students. I've heard several of his inventive and quirky wind quintets and am now anxious to hear more of his work. Thanks, Dave.
How can you not love the guy who invented wind quintets? A genre that has proved itself capable of so many colors, textures, rhythms, and melodies, all without the aid of strings or piano. This gentleman wrote a lot of intriguing music, much of which I have yet to hear. I need to rectify that post haste.
You might start with the 36 (!) Fugues. Extraordinary and often very beautiful.
Reicha’s most striking music might be the 36 Fugues for piano, which break the rules in interesting ways, above all fugal answers at unconventional intervals, such as 3rds and 6ths, as well as unusual time signatures. Beethoven is said to claimed that they weren’t really fugues at all, but apparently Elliott Carter found them very intriguing. There are some based on themes from earlier composers, including Scarlatti, Haydn and Mozart. Thank you for mentioning all these chamber works which I didn’t know existed.
I would really love to hear a beginner's guide talk on wind quintets. I know there's a bunch out there, but it's a form I don't have a ton familiarity wuthy.
An amazing discovery thanks to you. Loved his String quartets and the 'Quatuor scientifique', the Piano trios and quintet, Cello quintets, Octet etc. There are a couple of releases that include only his symphonies. Dave, which one do you consider better, the one with the Dvorak Chamber Orch. or the National Prague RSO ???. Thanks in advance.
Thanks again, David. More to explore. I love wind music, so I'll have to track some of this down -- but it's interesting that there is no Reicha in the Netherlands Wind Ensemble box given his prodigious output.
I have the complete wind quintets by the Westwood Wind Quintet on Crystal Records.
At one point, I also had the set you were holding, but decided on the Westwood set because of it's 432 Hz tuning.Also, they took every repeat possible and played them a touch slower too. They're perfect. 😊
I agree. They are better on the whole.
Forgive my ignorance Dave, but are Reicha and Rejcha one and the same with different spellings? Thanks
I believe that is correct.
If you watch the video again at 3:52 Dave is holding up the CD with the 3 cello trio piece and the composer's name on the CD cover is spelled REJCHA . When Dave holds up the next CD at 4:07 the composer's name is spelled REICHA. At 5:31 it's back to the J . at the Classics today web site it's the 'I' version. Maybe Dave could explain why the I and J are interchangeable.
@@classicalmusiclists 😎thanks for that. I’m registered blind so my eyes aren’t too sharp.
He was Czech by birth, later moved thru Bavaria, ultimately to France, resulting in several variations of the spelling.
Yes, they are the same.