Robert Kahn - Piano Quartet No. 2, Op. 30 (1899)
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- Опубліковано 6 сер 2024
- Robert Kahn (21 July 1865 - 29 May 1951) was a German composer, pianist, and music teacher.
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Piano Quartet No. 2, Op. 30 (1899)
1. Allegro energico (0:00)
2. Larghetto - Vivace - Tempo I (8:02)
3. Allegretto grazioso (14:39)
4. Vivace, ma non troppo - Poco più mosso - Tempo I - Più mosso - Tempo I (18:25)
Hohenstaufen Ensemble
Kahn composed a vast quantity of chamber music, writing in an intimate, lyrical style that is reminiscent of Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann, and Brahms. He was also an admirer of Reger. But aside from the Serenade Aus der Jugendzeit ("From Youth") and the Konzertstück, Op. 74 for piano and orchestra in E flat minor, he mostly avoided the large scale orchestral forms and emotional extravagance of late Romanticism. There are a number of ambitious works for chorus and orchestra, such as the Geothe setting Mahomets Gesang, Op. 24 (1896), the Sturmlied, Op. 53 for chorus, orchestra and organ (1910), and the Festgesang, Op. 64 for the same forces.
Of the chamber music there are three violin sonatas, two cello sonatas, four piano trios, two string quartets, three piano quartets and two piano quintets. Particularly notable are the Violin Sonata in E, Op. 50 (1907), the Piano Quartets, Op. 30 (1899) and Op. 41 (1904), and the String Quartet in A minor, Op. 60 (1914). The unconventionally scored Quintet in C minor of 1911 (for piano, violin, cello, clarinet and horn, the same combination used by Vaughan Williams in 1897), has been recorded. Lieder was also very important to Kahn: he composed around 180 solo songs and 13 duets.
Kahn was often commissioned to create works for some of the finest musicians of the early decades of the 20th century up to the young Adolf Busch with whom Kahn gave the first performance of his Suite, Op. 69 for violin and piano in 1920. His first Violin Sonata in G minor (1886) was dedicated to Joseph Joachim who asked to perform it when Kahn was still a young student in Berlin. Clara Schumann mentioned this sonata in her diary. The second Violin Sonata, in A minor, Op. 26 (1897) was dedicated to Joachim, while the String Quartet No. 1 in A major, Op. 8 (1889) was dedicated to and first performed by the Joachim Quartet. The second string quartet was premièred by the Klingler Quartet, successor of the Joachim. His Clarinet Trio, Op. 45 was dedicated to and performed by the famous clarinetist Richard Mühlfeld who also inspired Brahms's late chamber compositions. Hans von Bülow conducted the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in the world première of Kahn's orchestral serenade in 1890.
His renewed compositional activity after leaving Germany in 1938 resulted in a large collection of piano music, including more than 1,100 pieces. These took the form of a musical diary, the Tagebuch in Tönen, begun in 1935, with Kahn writing several short piano works per week until his death in 1951. Apart from an extracted set of 29, these only exist in manuscript at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin. The pianist Maksim Štšura has recorded a selection, as has Danny Driver.
How can a composer of such accomplishment have been so forgotten? This is a good as Brahms.
The first movement is absolute perfection!
awesome!! thank you😀
Wunderschöne und lebhafte Interpretation dieses spätromantischen und perfekt komponierten Quartetts in verschiedenen Tempi mit klarem Klang des Klaviers, seidigem Ton der Violine, mildem Ton der Bratsche und tiefem Ton des Violoncellos. Der zweite Satz klingt besonders schön und echt melodisch. Im Kontrast klingt der letzte Satz echt lebhaft und auch überzeugend. Die intime und perfekt entsprechende Miteinanderwirkung zwischen den vier Virtuosen ist wahrlich ergreifend. Wunderbar vom Anfang bis zum Ende!
Bravo bravo bravo bravo brilliance grandiose music super wow wow wow
Das Finale hat Ohrwurmqualitäten. Unbedingt hören!
Quelle grandeur!
Excellent....."The Hohenstaufen dynasty, also known as the Staufer, was a noble family of unclear origin that rose to rule the Duchy of Swabia from 1079, and to royal rule in the Holy Roman Empire during the Middle Ages from 1138 until 1254"......BRAVO from Acapulco!
Very charming, the character of the music reminds me of that of (German too) composer Hermann Goetz!..
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This is quite charming, and I'm reminded of Josef Rheinberger, another German composer, somewhat older, who also largely sidestepped the grandeur of late Romanticism. I'll bet money that some naysayer will say the work has no real slow movement. Reality check: Neither do several of Beethoven's piano sonatas or his 8th Symphony, so that's not grounds for an automatic demerit.
Great 1st and 4th movements.
For my part I have in my audio archive his Piano Quintet and the 3rd movement of his 1905 Trio in G Minor.
I will look up for the Violin Sonata in G minor (1886), the second Violin Sonata in A minor Op. 26 (1897), his Piano quartet Op. 41 (1904), the String Quartet in A minor, Op. 60 (1914) and his Suite, Op. 69 for violin and piano in 1920,
From the other authors you mention were close to him I have the Klavierquintett c-moll op.35 of Adolf Busch, the Quartettsatz in c minor (1850) of Joseph Joachim and the 1st and 4th movements of Clara Schumann's Piano Trio Op. 17 in G Minor (1846). Any other great work from these three that you recommend would be great.
Thanks for sharing
was für ein Finale....^^
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Wonderful piece. The fragment of music at the very start pays an homage to Dvorak's F-minor piano trio, which begins with (almost) the same musical figure. ua-cam.com/video/nNHncf3SfyU/v-deo.html
@davidyoung6331 -- yes YES.....Very astute.....BRAVO from Acapulco!
In my audio archive I have selected the 3rd movement of this Dvorak quartet. I re-listened yo the 1st movement you point out and to me it has a similar phrase exactly at the 6.51 you point in your comment (but maybe in other key?). That 1st movement is now also going into my audio archive.
Kind regards