Norbert Duka - Hoffmeister: Double Bass Quartets 2, 3 & 4, Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata (2011)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:06:07 | 365 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Naxos | Catalog: 8572187
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:06:07 | 365 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Naxos | Catalog: 8572187
These "double bass quartets" of Franz Anton Hoffmeister, a Viennese composer and publisher well known to both Mozart and Beethoven, are not written simply for one member each of the string family from violin to double bass; the bass is explicitly conceived of as a replacement for the first violin. That might seem an awkward order, but the charm of the music resides in the variety of elegant solutions Hoffmeister finds for the problems this configuration causes.