Edinger Quartett, Leo Klepper, Mathias Donder - E. Franck: String Sextets op. 41 & op. 50 (2004)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 74:05 | 349 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Audite | Catalog: 97501
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 74:05 | 349 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Audite | Catalog: 97501
In Audite's survey of the music of Eduard Franck, this has long been one of my favourite discs. The string sextet can be a tricky genre to master, which perhaps partly accounts for its rarity compared to the string quartet and even the piano quartet during the Romantic era: there are six musical parts that have to retain a degree of independence, as opposed to four in the quartet form, of course; and there is also the problem of balance, with the two violins effectively set against four instruments in lower registers.