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    Room-Music - Reynaldo Hahn: Piano Quartet, Violin Sonata & Other Chamber Music (2004) Reissue 2011

    Posted By: Designol
    Room-Music - Reynaldo Hahn: Piano Quartet, Violin Sonata & Other Chamber Music (2004) Reissue 2011

    Room-Music - Reynaldo Hahn: Piano Quartet, Violin Sonata & Other Chamber Music (2004)
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    Genre: Classical | Label: Helios/Hyperion | # CDH55379 | Time: 01:01:59

    It is a sad fact that the reputation and fame of many composers, built up over a lifetime, evaporates on their death bed. Si mes vers avaient des ailes, a short song written when the composer was just thirteen, is the work on which Hahn’s posthumous fame had, until relatively recently, relied, and is included here in the composer's own transcription for cello and piano. Recording catalogues now reveal an ever-growing list of works—concertos, symphonic offerings, songs, piano pieces and chamber music—by this most urbane and charming composer.

    The C major Violin Sonata of 1926 assuredly leads us into the world of Fauré fifty years earlier, its easy lyricism and textural transparency bearing a kinship with the elder French musician’s A major Sonata. This melodic suppleness is continued in Soliloque et Forlane, now with viola and piano demonstrating Hahn’s skill in turning out a jaunty tune. The Nocturne and the Romance, both for violin and piano, reveal further an ability to combine passionate intensity with a sense of refined melodic and harmonic delicacy. The Piano Quartet of 1946 adopts a more muscular and impassioned character. Melodic charm and restfulness in the Andante are interrupted by the central passage which sails into troubled and expressive waters and the finale rolls gracefully to its compelling conclusion.

    This charming recording is the perfect showcase for Room-Music, a consortium of internationally acclaimed musicians who wish to perform and explore chamber music in a more flexible and innovative form.

    I became acquainted with the music of Reynaldo Hahn through Hyperion's previous issue of exquisite songs and must also say that his style touched my heart immediately. This fine selection of chamber music is no less invigorating and is permeated with an indelible nostalgia that lingers throughout all the works.

    The Sonata is an exquisite peace full of meandering and haunting beauty with the markings entirely appropriate for the music on offer. Room Music gives what can be said to be a definitive interpretation all around with a particularly fine 'Modere', keeping the pulse of the music throbbing very well indeed.

    Three short pieces then follow in succession, 'Soliloque et Forlane', a Nocturne and a Romance. Each is imbued with the distinctive Hahn style and the combination of Charles Sewart, Yuko Inoue and Stephen Coombs is most inspired. I also greatly enjoyed the 1946 Piano Quartet which I feel is the highlight of the disc with its throwback to a vanished age. The concluding song is also very apt, taking us back to 1888. I have nothing but praise for this project which most definitely does a great deal for the re-establishment of Hahn's reputation.

    Review by Gerald Fenech, Classical.Net

    Reynaldo Hahn had a big love-in with lyricism. In his chamber music, which is all too under-performed and indeed unknown, this pervasive quality is sovereign, even to the exclusion of real sonata combat and contrast. The result in the Violin sonata is music of such undeniably verdant beauty in its Fauréan ethos that it would take a heart of blackest stone to resist or reject it. And yet this 1926 work is so tuneful and easeful, so implicitly rejecting of post-Fauré developments — this is the Fauré of the 1890s, not the later works — that one inevitably views it in the light of its looseness of construction, and its amiability of motifs. This is not to slight a work that seeks nothing except the promotion of its own sensibility, but it does make for a somewhat watery twenty minutes in its company.

    The only performance I had previously heard of the sonata was the 78 of Denise Soriano, though Christian Brière and J.P. Millow made an LP recording on Pianissime which didn’t get very much exposure, though the coupling of works by Fauré, Debussy, Kreisler and Rachmaninoff was on the money, stylistically speaking. Charles Sewart and Stephen Coombs made an excellent alliance, balancing well, and allowing the deft themes to register through limpid phrasing, light bowing and sensitive chording. The amusingly restless central scherzo balances the larger outer movements to good effect. The finale has the refined grace of a chanson, the vocalised tristesse of which is a pleasure to hear in this performance. The return to the climate of the opening movement is also intelligently calibrated.

    The other big work is the Third Piano Quartet of 1946. Again, the language is late nineteenth century, which is even more noticeable in a work written exactly twenty years after the Violin Sonata. The writing is light, agreeable, charming and reaches a peak of expressive outpouring in the Andante, though this is watered down via some ineffably Gallic salon grace and charm. The finale is genuinely effusive.

    The ‘fillers’ are all enjoyable once again. The Soliloque et Forlane for viola and piano has solid Baroque affiliations and a languorous-to-flighty profile. The much earlier 1906 Nocturne has a fair amount of ingratiating charm too. Hahn’s own arrangement of his most famous chanson, Si mes vers avient des ailles, is written for cello and piano.

    All these performances, recorded in 2003 and first released on Hyperion CDA67391 at full price, are hugely convincing. The foursome has the lightness of touch and the quicksilver quality necessary successfully to project the more winsome elements inherent in the music. For Fauré disciples — and Hahn was himself one, stylistically, to the core — this will be an enjoyable acquisition.

    Review by Jonathan Woolf, MusicWeb International


    Room-Music - Reynaldo Hahn: Piano Quartet, Violin Sonata & Other Chamber Music (2004) Reissue 2011



    Room-Music
    Stephen Coombs, piano
    Charles Sewart, violin
    Yuko Inoue, viola
    Philip de Groote, cello

    Recorded in Henry Wood Hall, London, on 15, 16 and 18 May 2003

    Tracklist:

    Reynaldo Hahn (1874-1947)

    Sonata in C major for violin & piano
    01. I. Sans lenteur, tendrement (8:13)
    02. II. Véloce (3:09)
    03. III. Modéré, Très à L'aise, Au Gré de L'interprète (8:53)

    04. Soliloque & Forlane for viola & piano (7:46)

    05. Nocturne in E flat major for violin & piano (5:34)

    06. Romance in A major for violin & piano (4:30)

    Piano Quartet No.3 in G major
    07. I. Allegretto moderato (7:09)
    08. II. Allegro assai (1:46)
    09. III. Andante (8:14)
    10. IV. Allegro assai (4:51)

    11. Si mes vers avaient des ailes (1:53)


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