NOSPR Chamber Music / Lightness and Charm - NOSPR

Overshadowed by more celebrated composers, the works of lesser-known masters sometimes conceal true gems. One such work is the Sextet, Op. 6 by the Austrian composer Ludwig Thuille, scored for piano and wind quintet. Taking Mozart's and Beethoven's classical wind quintets as a point of reference, Thuille's work of 1888 develops the expressive possibilities of the wind instruments in a more late-Romantic idiom, without ever losing sight of the rich variety of their tonal colours. Written almost forty years earlier, Louise Farrenc's Sextet in C minor—by a pioneering composer, an outstanding pianist and professor at the Paris Conservatoire, who succeeded in securing equal pay with her male colleagues in the mid-19th century—is rooted much more firmly in the Classical tradition. Yet how full it is of lightness and charm! No less enchanting is Francis Poulenc's captivating neoclassical Sextet from the 1930s. This is wonderful music that deserves to be discovered.

Adam Suprynowicz

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